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I just took _the_ coat to the dry-cleaners in advance of finally dealing with the tailoring thing ASAP.

"Ah, Rahel! Another coat! Oh... this coat... this is a serious coat," he said, patting it.

"Yeah. And really heavy," I said, having lurched over there with my fencing bag on my back.

"Yes. Serious."

"Take care of her, yeah?" (My dry cleaner is getting used to this; the amount of weird, fragile and/or hand-tailored stuff I'm emotional about is sort of massive and if he could just stop pressing the collars on my Regency shirts wrong, life would be perfect).

"I take care. R-a-h-?"

"e-l," I add as he fills out the ticket.

I'm not sure when or how I became Rahel there, but that's what's happened. The whole thing was kinda great.

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Not sure which makes me smile the more:

- that The Coat is a "her";

- that the dry-cleaner called you "Rahel" both aloud and on paper.

In both cases, great indeed! =D

The name thing has been going on for months now, and is hilarious and fairly inexplicable (beyond the fact that everyone fucks up my name, and I don't even bother correcting folks that don't need to get it right so it sort of devolved from Racheline to Rachel to Rahel at some point).

Meanwhile, I started calling the coat "she" about two weeks after I got it, and can't seem to stop.

So the coat is a "her"? Interesting.

The coat is definitely female, although that may just be my general habit with inanimate objects.

i don't know if you meant it to be so but this sentence is wildly delightful and amusing on so many levels. ;-)

It wasn't intentionally artful, just unavoidably so. I felt bad calling her an inanimate object. But I also thought, "goodness, I'm being very odd."

Oh, that's totally FTW...

That is a most excellent name :"D

Well, Rahel is probably preferable to Rachel which I think you hate.

Also, this woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahel_Varnhagen

I mean, she has an asteroid!

Edited 2008-11-17 21:27 (UTC)

I once worked for a professor who called me "Thes". I assume this was because my actual first name was unpronounceable in his native language.

Well, there are much worse things to be called than Rahel, right?

It's like being on a first name basis with someone, but not.

Brilliant.

marvelous story. i love it. when do you get her back?

I asked for Thursday, but may not be able to fetch her before Friday. Which is fine, as my drycleaner has a different concept of Thursday than I do as a rule.

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