my last name

I often joke about being the smartest kid in my preschool class - afterall, I had to learn the whole alphabet to spell my name. What do I mean? My last name is Zbylut...Z-B-Y-L-U-T, and as one can clearly observe it begins with a 'Z' or 'Zed' in Canada. My name is very Polish, and very unique. I've lived my whole life at the back of the line, it's just a natural thing for me.

Aside from all this, I'd have to say one of the greatest parts of having a unique last name is how people both attempt to say or spell it. Today, I was reminded once again of my preschool days learning to spell Zbylut.

Arriving home from work, I discovered a package on the kitchen table. It was addressed to my mom, and therefore, had this silly sight not caught my eye, I would have walked away without a second thought. However, what my eyes beheld was quite a humorous sight. In all the 19+ years of life, I've never seen an attempt at our last name go quite so wrong. The package read something to the affect of:
Rita Dbylut
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For those of you who think I spelled Zbylut wrong above by accidentally pressing D instead of Z, I shall inform you, whomever sent this package, hand wrote our name that way. Dbylut. (Neat!) I chuckled thinking, for sure, this guy takes the cake of poor spellings of our name. It's practically up there with Zibilt, Zibblet, Zyblut,Zoblut, Zibillet, etc.

Dbylut...who knew!? :)