It's nice to meet you!

You too! Is it Christopher or Chris?

Oh, I don't care, whichever!

Oooorrrr...

You could pass the lowest possible bar of introducing yourself...

and just give me a single name to call you by. Any name! I don't care. Just don't make me arbitrarily choose a name to call you by after 5 seconds of interaction.

This is has 'how not to necessarily inject uncertainty and awkwardness into simple social interactions' with Robot Hugs.

Next time: 'Asking 'guess what' and then literally making me guess is why we never talk anymore'.

Nomination

New comic! This happened to me a few weeks ago at work and because i was at work I was not able to take the person by the shoulders and sternly intone THERE IS POWER IN NAMES AND YOU SHOULD NOT METE IT OUT SO CASUALLY but I though about it REALLLLLY hard and then mentally named them 'Table'.