My name is...

My older brother's name is Lun, a common popular name among Cantonese speaking people and not too hard to pronounce or remember in English. In fact it's a very cool name if I may say so myself. However we had one customer who used to come into the chippy that always used to call my brother Tony. My brother probably tried to tell him numerous times he wasn't called Tony but indeed called Lun but because the customer insisted on calling him Tony, there wasn't much point to correct him. The customer, a friendly big man with an overwhelming laugh was a regular and didn't have to call me by name because he didn't know what my name was.

One day the customer rang up to order his usual of Steak Pudding,chips and...curry(yes curry sauce)whereby I answered the phone.

Me "Hello"
Customer: "Hiya can I place an order?"
Me:"Of course"
Customer: "Hiya can I have a pudding..wait is that Tony?..hiya Tony!"
Me(not seeing the point of explaining who I was because he wouldn't have known anyway): "Yup hi yeah its Tony, sorry what was your order?"
Customer: "Pudding,chips and curry.wait a minute you ain't Tony, isn't this Kit?"
Me(now embarrased): "Erm yeah it's Kit sorry."
Customer(now sounding a bit bemused:"I will be there in ten minutes,thanks bye"

To this day I have no idea how he got my name right and consequently consistently got my brothers name wrong.

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