crewdude48 wrote:If it makes you feel any better, my son has (and our future children will have) two first names. It is an artifact from my wife's picific islander culture. Two firsts, the middle is the maternal heratige, and the last is the fathers last. We usually just call him by his first first name, but when he is approaching the line, we can fire off both firsts in a warning tone before we have to resort to all four names.
It makes it really hard filling out paperwork for him. The worst part is that his second first name has the same first letter as his middle name. " No, we only wanted to you to put down his first name and his middle initial, not write out his middle name." I have even had someone try to tell me I am wrong about his name, and that it is impossible to have two first names.
You should see the boys' SS cards. Their middle names get cut off. Surprisingly, the SS office didn't give us any hassle about it. It's really bad for my oldest, as he has the longest first name - Chistopher. The other two have it a bit easier... Ian and Logan, and one of Ian's middle names is *also* only three letters.
Oh, something I forgot to mention - all their third middle names are the same - my wife's maiden name, but our/their names are *not* hyphenated.
Yeah... I can see where filling out paperwork for your son would be a hassle. I've had similar experiences due to the apostrophe in my last name - especially in the early days of computers where the software wasn't set up to recognize them in names.
And let's not even talk about the many ways people can mis-hear or mis-spell O'Donnell. I even get mail with the "O" as my middle initial.
I once was put on a waiting list at a restaurant due to a busy night, and after three attempts (with me saying each letter individually), I finally had to take the pen from the hostess and write my name myself.
More proof that people hear what they want to hear, and ignore everything after.
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