My [24m] girlfriend [21f] is trying to “name-drop” me when I’m not even actually an important person, and it’s getting kind of annoying. Together 4 months.

So I work for the city. Not in any glamorous capacity, I’m a mechanic who works on city-owned vehicles. But from hearing my girlfriend Emily talk you’d think I was the City Manager’s assistant or something. Normally I don’t really care, but recently she’s started “name-dropping” me for stuff and it’s kinda getting on my nerves.

First example was a month and a half or something ago. I randomly got a message from her that said something to the effect of “Had to use your name today, but it got me out of a ticket, thanks! Hope you don’t mind!”

I asked her later what she meant and she said she got pulled over by the cops, and then somehow fit into the conversation that she’s dating agreeable_ground from fleet services. The cop then let her off with a warning. She seemed to think that saying my name is the reason, but that seemed a little farfetched to me. Some time later I did run into that cop when he had to bring his car in for services and asked him about it. He was planning on letting her off the whole time and he and his cop buddies had a slight chuckle at someone dropping my name on them.

I just had a chat with Emily that maybe dropping my name to get out of tickets is both unlikely to work and kind of shitty anyway, and she promised she wouldn’t do it anymore.

Then a few weeks ago she randomly asked me if I could “help out” her sorority with something. I actually have no idea what the crux of it was, but it had something to do with their house getting in trouble with the Code Enforcement guys. I told her that I’m not sure what she thinks I do at work, but I mostly just fix garbage trucks and have fuck-all to do with code enforcement. She just asked me to “pretty please” see if there was someone at work I could talk to. There is no one at work who could help with that and I told her so.

Then, just today, Emily’s sorority wants to work out some event in the spring and wants to try and partner (or something) with the local government and do it at the zoo. Apparently, without my knowledge, Emily told her governing council (or whatever the fuck they’re called) “Oh, my boyfriend works in the city government, he could probably get us an in!”

So now suddenly my phone is blowing up with sorority girls asking me if I could help them out with this thing, and no one seems to be hearing me when I tell them I’m just a fucking garbage truck mechanic. It’s like asking the guy at the Apple Store to get an inside view on their Board of Directors.

I do love Em, she’s a great girlfriend otherwise, but its like she turns into a spoiled wife with a poweful husband when I’m not even a powerful husband. I’ve talked to her twice about this junk and she keeps pulling out my name when she thinks it will benefit her.

TL;DR My gf keeps dropping my name like I’m some powerful important person when I’m neither, and I don’t really like being name dropped even if I was. Help?

Submitted December 02, 2018 at 03:43PM by Agreeable_Ground https://ift.tt/2ri8yX1