I used to stop regularly at the same fast food restaurant on my way to rehearsals for various theatre productions. The same woman always worked the drive through and I finally had to ask her, “How do you pronounce your
name?”

“Treevy-AL,” she replied.

The spelling on her name tag was “Trivial.” Her parents named her “Insignificant.”

Then again, my parents chose to spell my name “Allen” (which is generally how it’s spelled with it is a last name) rather than the more common “Alan” ensuring that I will probably never find a souvenir coffee mug with my name
on it.

Then again, at least they didn’t come up with “Allyn” or something worse.

–Allen