My name is LAURA --> ( lawr-uh )

/ˈlɔrə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ lawr-uh ]

[ aw ] all, or, talk, lost, saw

Say it out loud. That is how you should pronounce it.

It pisses me when someone insists of another. Especially when they insist of the wrong thing.

I came inside an optical store, wanting to buy a pair of contact lens. Note, I've been a customer of that optical store ever since it opened its branch there. I have a very thick, I mean very thick, record there already.

I came in there, all smiles, asking the newly promoted saleslady (assuming that she was just given that regular job since it would be my first time to see her face in that store) for a pair of contacts for me and my sister. Did you know what she told me? "What contact lens?" A little miffed, I told her the ordinary kind, the clear ones. She then asked me what kind again. Annoyed now, I told her to look at me and my sister's records. Told her our names, April and Laura [lawr-uh] Diaz.

For crying out loud, it took her 5 minutes to get back to me. That's way to long to be the last and only customer left in their store. Yes, she came back, with only one record! My sister's!! Then in a flat tone, tells me that I have no record there. At this point, you can see the irritation in my face. "That's IMPOSSIBLE!", I told her. "I've been a customer here for years." At the back of my mind, I wanted to tell her I've been a customer here longer than she was a saleslady there. Stupidly she asked me, "When was you last check-up here?" I told her that was early this year and I just bought glasses with it and been buying contacts since forever here. Stupid lady.


So she goes back to the record cabinet, and in another 2 minutes, I had it. I looked for Doc, who I call "Doki" and asked her "Doki, what's my grade again?" She said to me, "What? Isn't in your record? It's there. Where is it?" I pointed to the stupid saleslady saying, "She said I don't have a record here. I do doki, right?"

"Of course you do, Laura [lawr-uh] Diaz, right?", she asked. "Yes doki", at last someone who made sense. In less than 5 seconds, she gets my record and says my name again "Laura [lawr-uh] Diaz", showing it to the stupid saleslady, "Here it is."

The nerve of that saleslady! You know what she said? "Doc, that's Laura [lao-ra OR [ ou] out, loud, how]!"

Hearing it, I was really angry now. "What??!!?? That is my name! It's Laura [lawr-uh]! That's how you pronounce it, lau-ra [lawr-uh]." The nerve. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

She gave me this sly laugh and smile, trying to cover up her mistake. The doctor gave a disapproving laugh, if you know what I mean and this time everyone, meaning all the staff, were in the customer desk, looking at her and shocked with what she just had done.

As she came close to me, she even tried to put her fault at me. "You said it was 'lawr-uh'."

"Yes, my name is Laura [lawr-uh]. That is how you should pronounce my name."

To really rub it to her coconut shell , "If it's 'Lao-ra' for you, it's not. It should be pronounced as 'law-ruh', ok?"

I gave myself a deep breathing. *sigh*......

Forgiving her stupidity, I broke the ice. "C'mon miss, you know you were wrong. Give it a break. As long as from now on, it's 'law-ruh' ok? Let's leave this behind."

So I left there with a smile, not disrespecting anybody, saying 'thank you' and leaving that stupid lady with what dignity left to her.


I'm not leaving it behind, that's why I had to write about it.

Please, if your name was insulted like that, wouldn't you be pissed too?