Call me Sarah!
A few days ago I was introduced to someone. It was a brief encounter while I passed through a room of people with a friend.
My friend introduced me: "Hi Colin, nice to see you again. This is my friend David"
Colin: "Ah, good to meet you Dave".
I immediately stepped in, "Hi Colin, please call me David".
I've never liked Dave as a name for me. I just don't think I am a Dave, or cool enough to pull off a Dave. haha
It often happens that people naturally shorten my name, but I always politely correct them and establish my name is David.
Colin's response was, "Oh, I always shorten David to Dave. It's my thing".
Me, looking at him with some disbelief: "Ah, ok that's cool because I always shorten Colin to Sarah."
He took a moment to process my retort, so I used the pause to bid my farewell and left his air-space.
I don't think Colin/Sarah and I will ever be chums. His loss.