assumptions

[sev]

[phone rings]

Me: Hello?

Charity fundraising person: Hello, Mrs. Z-----?

Me: I'm sorry, Mr. Z-----'s mother does not live here.

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"Mr. Riba?"

(on the few occasions in which someone doesn't know what I am named, but I want to talk to them anyway)

"No, I didn't take my wife's name when we got married."

(most of the time)

"There's nobody here by that name."