"What's your name?" Potoae. "Bow Toe?"
"Sorry darl, I wasn't going to attempt to say your beautiful name, in case I missed pronounce it😅,"
Thoughts running widely as my brown eyes wanted to seriously laser beam her straight down the middle. "Oh that's all right dear, you can call me Poto 🤙 just to shorten it "Poh Toh." Poto." "Ok darl," totally ignoring the excitement in my voice.
"so Bea Pou, your appointment with the child health nurse is in 2weeks time, and you can call at anytime to cancel or rebook, ok darl, lovely to met you Bea Pou! So gorgeous! Baby is doing so well! See you next time!"
I'm thinking surely this woman knows her vowels? (a e i o u) ah eh eee Oh ow...
I really wanted to turn around and quickly give her a friendly 10 second lesson on pronouncing my name right and clap out the four syllables of my name.
Sweat sliding down my face as the hot air from the out side comes gushing in through the double automatic doors of the community child health clinic..…..
Coming soon….
Blink me to the 90s part3: Pronounced "POh ToH Ah Eh"