Insisting that I've eaten somewhere I have not

[Hungary Jack]

I love it when people tell you something about yourself as if they know you better than you.

My favorite is the pronunciation of my distinctly Hungarian name. Every so often someone comes along and tells me that my name is pronounced as though I were an Italian female. I'll try to correct them a few times, and if I reach the point the exasperation, I say "well I guess I've had it wrong for 40 years now..."

[StatmanCrothers]

Yeah, my crack addiction was at its absolute worst when I was 12. So, maybe I was there?

its not that you were on the crack THEN, honey. you probably remembered it fine until you got on the damned crack. thinking like that, thats just part of it. we'll get you help. just remember we love you, dear.

[StatmanCrothers]

I'm going to call Mrs. Phelps. Her Bonnie went through something like this after Norman left her. I'll get the name of Bonnie's crack doctor. Bonnie's put on so much weight now i'm sure she's better, I see her down at the Eagles every time i'm there.

[StatmanCrothers]

I love it when people tell you something about yourself as if they know you better than you.

My favorite is the pronunciation of my distinctly Hungarian name. Every so often someone comes along and tells me that my name is pronounced as though I were an Italian female. I'll try to correct them a few times, and if I reach the point the exasperation, I say "well I guess I've had it wrong for 40 years now..."

Science fiction authors are the absolute worst about this.

I've had 'em tell me how to pronounce my own name (way off, champ)
and even how to do my job (immunology and microbiology). And not
only are they wrong or barely scratching the surface of understanding,
they do it in the most condescending way imaginable.

Once, I would laugh off. But nearly every party I go to where there
are writers (and in Seattle, it's a given), I encounter this.

By any chance did one of these guys have 2 heads and go by the name Zaphod?