My last name is never included...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm sorry if it offends you and I hope you weren't one of the handful of people on our Christmas card list in this situation. I just honestly went with the "pick a team" approach, as someone said and referred to you as "The Smith Family" since it was quicker, easier, and frankly fit on the envelope better than "John Smith and Jane Doe and family". I know your family doesn't use a hyphenated last name so that seemed incorrect to say "The Smith-Doe Family". I was thinking of you and wanted to send you holiday greetings. Unfortunately I was by hand also addressing almost 100 other cards plus doing the 10,000 other things involved in working full-time, caring for a family, and preparing for a hopefully joyous holiday season.

Hopefully you understood when the card came that it was for everyone in the household. I'm sorry if the names on the envelope caused you displeasure rather than the happiness I hoped you'd feel on getting a card and note from us.

You don't sound sorry at all. Stop being a lazy bitch.

You don't sound sorry at all. Stop being a lazy bitch. +1. Seriously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it really annoying that some women don't change their name. How am I supposed to know that you didn't change your name?

I find it really annoying that men don't consider changing their name to their wife's family name upon marriage. Oh well. Life has annoyances.

You're supposed to know that I didn't change my name because I've had my name all my life and there is no reason to change it. Rather than assuming, you could simply ask a person if they are planning to change their name.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm sorry if it offends you and I hope you weren't one of the handful of people on our Christmas card list in this situation. I just honestly went with the "pick a team" approach, as someone said and referred to you as "The Smith Family" since it was quicker, easier, and frankly fit on the envelope better than "John Smith and Jane Doe and family". I know your family doesn't use a hyphenated last name so that seemed incorrect to say "The Smith-Doe Family". I was thinking of you and wanted to send you holiday greetings. Unfortunately I was by hand also addressing almost 100 other cards plus doing the 10,000 other things involved in working full-time, caring for a family, and preparing for a hopefully joyous holiday season.

Hopefully you understood when the card came that it was for everyone in the household. I'm sorry if the names on the envelope caused you displeasure rather than the happiness I hoped you'd feel on getting a card and note from us.

You don't sound sorry at all. Stop being a lazy bitch.

PP here. I actually am sorry and will think about this thread next year. Coming on DCUM just to be nasty isn't my thing, comments like your's actually are the thing I hate about DCUM. Really, lazy bitch was necessary three days before Christmas? Anyway... In one case we have a family where both the husband and wife have two syllable first names and long three syllable last names, plus two children. It was honestly just easier to say "The Humperdinck Family" as it seemed that it would be silly to have their names take up three lines on the envelope when addressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm sorry if it offends you and I hope you weren't one of the handful of people on our Christmas card list in this situation. I just honestly went with the "pick a team" approach, as someone said and referred to you as "The Smith Family" since it was quicker, easier, and frankly fit on the envelope better than "John Smith and Jane Doe and family". I know your family doesn't use a hyphenated last name so that seemed incorrect to say "The Smith-Doe Family". I was thinking of you and wanted to send you holiday greetings. Unfortunately I was by hand also addressing almost 100 other cards plus doing the 10,000 other things involved in working full-time, caring for a family, and preparing for a hopefully joyous holiday season.

Hopefully you understood when the card came that it was for everyone in the household. I'm sorry if the names on the envelope caused you displeasure rather than the happiness I hoped you'd feel on getting a card and note from us.

You don't sound sorry at all. Stop being a lazy bitch.

PP here. I actually am sorry and will think about this thread next year. Coming on DCUM just to be nasty isn't my thing, comments like your's actually are the thing I hate about DCUM. Really, lazy bitch was necessary three days before Christmas? Anyway... In one case we have a family where both the husband and wife have two syllable first names and long three syllable last names, plus two children. It was honestly just easier to say "The Humperdinck Family" as it seemed that it would be silly to have their names take up three lines on the envelope when addressing.

NP. Why would it take up three lines to instead write "The Humperdinck/Rosenberg Family"? And what does the number of syllables in their first names and the number of their kids have to do with anything? No one is suggesting you address the card to "Rinaldo Humperdinck and Samantha Rosenberg and Tallulah Humperdinck and Samuel Humperdinck".

Seriously, just take two extra seconds to write the wife's last name as well. It's not anywhere near as difficult as you're trying to make it sound.