The inside joke around my house is: "Hi, my name, Chuck".

Whenever we get a spelling detail wrong, or misunderstand each other, somebody sez to me 

"Ok Chuck".

It comes up all the time:

- spelling someone's name, or a product model

- name for waiting list please?

- order sandwich - need a name

- passport office - ran out of number tickets, taking names

It's really not funny when you tell someone about it, but once they see happen, it's hilarious!

"Your name please?"

"Jeff"

"Chuck?"

"No, Jeff"

"Chuck??"

Sometimes I just want to leave... instead of working it out.

In CA where I live, people want to hear "Chuck" for whatever reason - it's on them... I don't mis-pronounce my name!

I asked my date: 'Do you think when I say "Jeff"...  - it sounds like "Chuck" to you?'

She said "no".

It's not even a funny conversation. Just a sincere question, is it them, OR is it me?

It's not funny, until she heard someone do it at the taco bar:

"Table is ready for Chuck" - they announced on the PA system.

She couldn't stop laughing.... ;-)

Now it's our "inside joke".

She tells our friends:

"When I'm not happy with him, I call him Chuck!"

"Or I just say, '10-4, Chuck'."

There is no similarity to the two different names, for me.

Chuck is a nickname. Nickname for Charles.

Jeff is 50 times more popular of a name, than Chuck.

So, if someone says, 'My name is "Erin"'. 

"Karen?"         (I have a sister named Karen, so I assumed she said Karen)

They sound different! Very different, to my ears...

But I wanted to hear Karen, it reminds me of my sister!

----------------- It happened again just last night -------------

'OMG, he's right!'  

- she's cracking up, laughing, people are looking, what's so funny?

- Huge disbelief! 

"How do you get Chuck, from Jeff?"

People hear, what they want to hear... that's how.