33 people share the most annoying responses people have to their name.

If, like me, your parents decided to give you a name that isn't on the list of common baby names where you come from, your life becomes an obstacle course of weird questions and constant explanations. My name is May, so when introducing myself I will either say "MAYYYYYY like the month" or else just accept that my name is Meg (which I often do, to save time and trouble). I also get asked these questions at least once a week: 1) Were you born in May? (No.) and 2) does everyone always ask you that? (Yes.)

But I'm definitely not the only person to deal with first-name problems. Someone named Marcus posted this very popular tweet about the way people often respond to his name: