Your name is Gret?

Yes, it IS Gret. Not Greg, not Bret. GRET...

-- I was communicating with a woman in Portland, Oregon via e-mails about booking some ads in the newspaper there and she was confused by my name. Her reply to my e-mail included all the information I had requested regarding the ad placement along with a question of her own...

"I don't mean to be rude, but I've never heard of the name Gret before. I was just wondering... Are you a man or a woman?" --

And, in case you're wondering - I am a woman, not a man.