At the bank today...

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4. I registered donors at blood drives for years and used to see some unusual names.

A lot of times I'd say something like, "before you tell me, let me take a stab at this", then try and pronounce it. I'm pretty good at it from watching a lot of sports, especially hockey. Usually they were used to people not being able to pronounce their names and were impressed if I at least came close.

One was from Idaho and the name was Desjardins. If you're a hockey fan, you'd know Eric Desjardins the great defenseman, and the French pronunciation. So I give it to him real slick and he says no, it's dess jar dins. Oops. I kind of think he had a French Canadian grandpappy and they just let the original pronunciation go.