Oddham Finbar Nose

Jamison Powell was looking forward to the Thanks Giving Dinner his son gave every year. He enjoyed the company of younger people. The upcoming dinner was going to be interesting, because his son Stanford had changed his management team and there were a lot of new faces.

Stanford introduced Jamison to one of the new managers. He caught the name and thought it was very strange. "Why would your parents name you Oddham Finbar Nose? I don't get it!" Mr. Nose looked strange at him. Jamison's gaze wandered to Mr. Nose's wife. For some reason her shoulders quivered as if she tried to hide a laugh. Jamison didn't understand it. Mr. Nose replied: I was named after my grandfather and father." “Were you teased as a child?” “Merciless, but I didn’t rise to their teasing, so they gave up. I think I have heard all possible variations of my name from baked to fried ham.” “I believe parents should be responsible and give only more common names.” Jamison said. Stanford could have said something about nicknames too. His had been Ivy League, because he had been named after the university and since it was quite prestigious, class mates saw it fitting. It hadn’t been too bad, though, and some still called Stanford Ivy League.

Oddham agreed completely with Jamison. He had a one and a half year old daughter, who was named Casey. Jamison was satisfied. He thought Casey wouldn’t have problems later on and wanted to see a photograph of her. Oddham obliged.

Oddham, Frieda and Jamison had a good time during dinner.

Later Jamison talked with Stanford about Oddham. Jamison found out that the CSO wasn’t named Oddham Finbar Nose. His real name was Coldham Fintan Noose. Jamison wondered why Fin, as Stanford insisted his CSO wanted to be called, hadn’t corrected him. It explained the looks and Frieda’s suppressed laughter, though. Jamison hoped Fin didn’t believe he had called him by a different name on purpose. Sometimes it was difficult for Jamison to follow a conversation, because he was hard of hearing due to his age. He brought it up with Stanford, who promised to have a chat with Fin.

Fin had already worked out Jamison was hard of hearing and to save him embarrassment he hadn’t corrected Stanford’s father. Stanford was glad Fin had been diplomatic and let his father know there weren’t any hard feelings.

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