If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?
Eminem had a whole song about his name. Hence the title to my post today. I hope someone else heard his song when reading my title. Otherwise it’s just a weird title.
To answer the question today, if I had to change my name, it must be because I’m in the witness protection program or something or I’m trying to escape or hide my identity in some way. With that said, a few of my favorite sitcom characters have given me some ideas…
Phoebe Buffay from “Friends” used the name Regina Phalanges all through the show.
My absolute favorite character though is Karen Walker from “Will & Grace”. I love her! And I love anything the actress who plays her (Megan Mullally) does.
When she didn’t want to be herself at a bar, she used her alter ego name, Anastasia Beaverhousen. “Anastasia, like Russian royalty, and Beaverhousen, like where the beaver live.”
I don’t know what my drinking name would be. Although, when I was 12 and my parents and I moved to North Carolina where I didn’t know anybody, I thought it would be fun to tell people my name was Anna. I don’t know why I did that. Or why I chose Anna. I thought it was kind of neat that nobody knew me so I could make up anything about myself and they wouldn’t know the difference. It worked on one girl in my neighborhood. My grandma convinced me to tell her my real name though because she did make a good point. If I was out with my friend and something happened to me, it would be dangerous for them to not know my real name in case they had to call an ambulance or my parents or something. So I went back to my real name, Sarah.
Which, it’s not a bad name. Like most of these daily questions, there’s a post that analyzes my name on here somewhere.
If the question was, if I could change my name and didn’t have to, I don’t think I would. I’ve been Sarah Elizabeth for 43 years. My name has served me well. Now my last name? No offense to my husband and his family, but people can’t seem to get it right. It is pronounced exactly as it looks…Panter. Pan…ter. People keep trying to call me Panther. There is no h. Or they want to call me Painter. There is no i. So when I have to share my last name and I can see the person’s brain short circuiting trying to process it, I go ahead and say, “Panter. Like panther but no h.”
In conclusion, until I’m clever enough to come up with an alias as good as Regina Phalanges or Anastasia Beaverhousen, I’m good just being Sarah Panter.
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