Teachers: the names you will never name your own kids

[carnation]

In high school, we had a boy named Nimrod Funk and a girl named Pidney Kobs. I always wondered what became of them.

My worst experience with names as a teacher, though: I was calling the roll on the first day a few years ago and said, "Whitey (last name)?" and a black girl raised her hand and said icily, "It's *Whitley*."

I doublechecked and the roll did say Whitey. They didn't change it for a couple of days and in the meantime, she got called Whitey when the roll was called in every class she had.