As much as i loved it, i stopped using it because of how confused it made literally everyone i gave it to in my unexpected format haha. The novelty wore off when i would inevitably have to repeat myself in the normal format.
Your problem was a) breaking convention b) not letting the other party get their own dopamine boost.
Same with a custom domain I had for emails. People just expect you to say "@gmail.com".
Though i don't know what i'd use anyway. me@bobs.mi sounds .. annoying to say over the phone lol. Maybe i lean into it, at@bobs.mi or space@bobs.mi... heh
If you want to be really obnoxcious just have your full on name. bobsmith@bobs.mi, or maybe a email@bobs.mi
I also have a backup gmail that just dumps to my main inboc of just my full name if I don't want to bother with trying to explain
Yup. For a looong time my email address has been the same: $firstname@$lastname.com
When I'm giving it to someone new it usually takes a few tries for them to get it right, even if they already know both my first and last names :/
The one that gets me is credit card operators who say your card number to you in groupings different from the card itself, like 5 digits then 3 groups of 3 instead of 5 4 5 or whatever the card is.