My name is Tim, but call me Tom

My name is Tim, but call me Tom

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DrDoofenshmirtz

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Sunday 26th July 2015
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My name is Tim.
But all my life, people have mistakenly, on occasion, called me Tom. Not once or twice, at least once a fortnight someone will call me Tom.
It's usually people who I've met before but they probably can't quite remember my name, so they call me Tom.

I can completely understand people being unable to pronounce a name...I mean my wife is Irish and called Siobhán FFS (Still not quite sure how you get 'shi-vawn' from that, but anyway) - Tim? Obviously anyone can pronounce that, it's just they seem to confuse it with Tom.

Any other Tims share my life long hate of all Toms?