So, I went to my school for a rehearsal for the show I am in the pit orchestra of from 6 PM to 10:30 PM (that's not the reason for this post), and the shirts that many people ordered had arrived.
They were supposed to have the names of everyone involved in the show, cast, crew, as well as the pit orchestra. They were SUPPOSED to. My name, due to an error of some sort, is not on the shirt. My conductor sees this and goes "weird, I put your name on the list and gave it to the people who make the shirts..."
This alone doesn't really annoy me a lot, but after I told my mother about this, she was furious. She then made a good point. Stuff like this seems to happen to me about 80% of the time.
For some reason, I'm almost always overlooked and not credited for stuff I took as much part in as anyone. My name might accidently be skipped, or omitted completely, or spelled incorrectly. Of course, these are all mistakes, but the fact that they happen so frequently does annoy me a little.
About 5 years ago, when I was in 8th grade, I was told I had won an award among a few other 8th graders in the middle school I was in. My name was to be called, and I'd go up and receive that award. The night of this show, I saw the program, and saw that I was accidently called a different name (there was a guy who shared my last name but was not related to me. His name was on the program instead of mine, but he did not receive an award nor was he invited).
Back in December, at one of the Winter concerts I was in, my name had been in the program and everything. The conductor had been mentioning a few people in the ensemble who had solos. I, in a rare occasion, had one. The conductor had not called my name, though. After the concert, I had told him about this, and he said he realized this shortly after he started the piece we played, and had said "oops" to himself as he was conducting and heard me play my solo.
My mother also added on the car ride home about the fact that I had been promised to go on band trips not once, not twice, but three times, but have been told "sorry, you can't go" near the last minute. That doesn't have much to do with the fact that my name is sometimes omitted or spelled wrong on programs and shirts, just the fact that I'm always overlooked as a person.
My (real) name isn't hard to spell or pronounce. I don't understand why people have such a hard time with it...
