Cheryl and I had been married a few years when we began working together in a business we owned.  One day I went into the employee break room and found a sign on the vending machine.  The sign read:

 

This machine doesn’t give change correctly. 

Thanks,

Cheryl Edmonson

 

That would have been okay, except that the name is Edmondson.  I knew we had a problem when my wife couldn’t spell my last name.  Thankfully it was just a typing error, but it has remained something I tease her about from time to time. (Like now.) 

 

Does it bother you when someone can’t spell your name? What if the person misspelling your name is someone who has known you for years?  Does that bother you? 

 

Some people are detail people; some are not, and maybe this should be one of those that we just dismiss as an unnecessary detail, but to me it just seems you would want to know how to spell a friend’s name.  Here’s the deal.  I may not remember your name, (probably not) but if I do, I will attempt to know how to spell it. 

 

My name has always been misspelled, but it seems that over the last few months it has been so more than usual; often by people I would have thought knew how it was spelled.

 

Just in case you are wondering; the name is EDMONDSON.  Not Edmonson or Edmundson or Emonston. 

 

EDMONDSON.  Thanks.  I feel better.