I have a really uncommon first name (The only thing I’m in the 1% with).
I was visiting Ireland with my parents. They had met a couple of other Dutch people at the bar, who happened to be staying in the same hostel.
At breakfast they joined our table. My parents introduced me: ‘This is our son Aka’. The guy says: That’s funny, I once met a boy with that name before, this was in Yugoslavia, I believe in '84.
Turns out this guy was the savior that once retrieved my swimming shoe from the bottom of a bay in the Adriatic sea once, ten years before.
If I had a more common name, we would never had known.
I have a really uncommon first name (The only thing I’m in the 1% with).
I was visiting Ireland with my parents. They had met a couple of other Dutch people at the bar, who happened to be staying in the same hostel.
At breakfast they joined our table. My parents introduced me: ‘This is our son Aka’. The guy says: That’s funny, I once met a boy with that name before, this was in Yugoslavia, I believe in '84.
Turns out this guy was the savior that once retrieved my swimming shoe from the bottom of a bay in the Adriatic sea once, ten years before.
If I had a more common name, we would never had known.