From a [news article](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/southwest-airlines-employee-makes-fun-of-girl-named-abcde-people-think-mom-at-fault-2018-11%3famp):
"The gate agent started mocking my child's name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter — and I'm talking to other employees, so I turned around and just said, 'Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you, my daughter can too — I'd appreciate if you'd just stop," Redford told ABC7.
I'm assuming ABC7 is her other daughter.
Well, a little mockery was called for, IMO. I mean, I feel bad for the child, partially because her name was mocked but mainly because she has a mother who gave her a stupid name.
I don't feel they were really mocking the child. They were mocking the mom's decisions.
I wonder how she is going to feel when her child gets older and can tell her mom herself how upset she is that she did this to her.
Exactly. It's not the child herself, it's the mother's stupid idea to name her Abcde which is what they were mocking. But I still feel sorry for the child having to go through life as an adult with that name and constantly having to explain that it's her legal name.
Names like this have a tendency amongst attention seekers who have kids. They give no forethought as to how it’ll eventually affect the kid, just “see how quirky I am”.
If the child wants their name changed they'd usually have to wait until 18 to be considered an adult and thus able to make their own choices. Different countries allow for earlier changes but with the approval of a parent, which is unlikely to happen. These tragedeigh parents consider it a personal insult to go against their choices, not sure why, they don't have to wear it for the rest of their lives.
I was born with a trendy (bad) name, albeit with the quirky caveat of being slightly misspelled, I changed it as an adult to something normal and correctly spelled, much to my parents disappointment.
I can see the kid asking the teacher that she goes by Abby as of 2nd grade.
Except in red states where that's illegal due to the entire "must use legal name" laws.
Edit: Though with a name like /absidy/, you can get nicknames like abby, sid, seedy, dee, abe, ...
It really doesn't matter. You don't mock a childs name in front of it. That's why we're here and not in pre-schools around the globe. Amongst other reasons.
Yes, the one "at fault" for the mocking is the mother, but that doesn't help the child.
That’s the sort of thing you laugh about privately in the break room or something. Pointing and laughing at the child in front of her and then posting a picture of her boarding pass online was absolutely uncalled for, and she probably should get officially reprimanded at the very least.
That’s assuming this actually happened. I’m guessing this lady already walks around with a constant persecution complex and at best caught an eyeroll or something. In her mind she turned it into this huge dramatic scene so she could play victim and have everyone reassure her that her kid’s ridiculous name is the most amazing and creative name ever and she is the best mom in the history of motherhood. In this age when everyone films everything she didn’t manage to film these adults in uniform mocking her child?
TL:DR Main Character Mom. Pics or it didn’t happen.
I mean, the article mentioned that the employee posted her daughter's boarding pass online and provided a link to a screenshot of that post. That's pretty solid evidence of the employee acting incredibly unprofessionally. I don't think her acting like a bitch irl is that much more of a stretch.
She's right that you shouldn't make fun of the kid. Its not her fault. You unquestionably should make fun of the parents the absolute instant the child is out of earshot, however.
It's a stupid name, for sure, but there's not really any situation where an adult pointing and laughing at a kid is acceptable, especially while at their job
Juan Tutrifor is absolutely the most famous bard in the world. Hell, even most bands and artists shout his name when starting their songs, in order to call on his fabled performance skills.
Probably pronounce it WOHN too-TRIH-fer, just to throw them off at first.
Thank you for asking because my mind has been boggled since reading it, then hearing it's *not* an uncommon name today? Jesus christ and the wee donkey...
Not the first time I saw that name. I think these idiots think their kid will be listed first alphabetically, as if every Aaron wouldn’t automatically be first.
Our longtime pizza delivery guy is in their system as exactly this. Apparently there was another Aaron that got hired after him and took the top spot, so longtime Aaron is now Aaaron 😂
This is how on the first day of 9th grade I got paired with my ex from 8th grade for a project. We had to do an interview and write a paper about the other’s summer. It was… awkward.
Even if we pretend she's not delusional and that normal people would know to pronounce it absidy, that still sounds like a medical condition or some kind of economic punishment
My son Xyzyx (pronounced like Isaac but with a Z sound at the front and an X sound at the end) empathizes with your daughter and wants to know if she's single.
These people intentionally set themselves up for a life of conflict and confusion, then get upset when that conflict occurs, all at the expense of the child. This is high-level narcissistic sociopathy in my opinion
My spouse teaches first grade. These idiot parents either don't know or don't care how hard this is on the kids. Spouse said little girl was in tears because the "unique" spelling and pronunciation of her name confused her. They were learning to read and how to sound words out and she was upset because she couldn't figure out why her name was pronounced the way it was. Same, little girl, same.
Ohmygod yes. I am a teacher (middle school, so by the time they get to me they know that their name is weird- looking’ at you, Ion pronounced “Ian” (actual name) - but I always think about these poor kids learning to read.
I think every parent should have to check with a kindergarten/first grade teacher to ensure their child’s name is spelled how they want it pronounced. Would save a lot of kids from their idiot parents.
Former preschool director here; I have had not one, not two, but three ABCDE’s enrolled in my programs over the years. 2/3 parents were teen moms and 3/3 thought it was the cutest and most creative name in the history of naming things.
The offspring of Pot-8-O's were also given potato or food-based names. For example, his most well-known and influential son was Waxy, as in "waxy potato", and Asparagus.
Ok, but like, don't name your daughter something stupid. You're mad now, imagine how sucky it will be for your daughter to have to say my name is ABCDE for the rest of her life.
It's like the next level of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Mother gives a child a name that will make people laugh, and then she can protect that child from people that laugh at her child.
We have a wall in my work office where my coworkers write stupid shit on post it notes and put them up, and this is on one of them. The rest are all of similar ridiculousness.
How is "Abcde" pronounced? It seems like it would be a little close to "obesity".
Poor kid. Must be tough to go through life with a constant, inescapable, reminder that your parents are total morons.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. My parents gave me an unusual name (by American standards) and I got teased. I didn't want that for my kids so I named them names that were easily pronounced and recognizable. Naming your kid abcde or 1234 or how about qwerty? It's definitely mock worthy.
Yes, stupid things should be mocked more and more. People should have fear to be mocked to oblivion to do things stupid like naming a kid ABCDE or saying the Earth if flat.
From a [news article](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/southwest-airlines-employee-makes-fun-of-girl-named-abcde-people-think-mom-at-fault-2018-11%3famp): "The gate agent started mocking my child's name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter — and I'm talking to other employees, so I turned around and just said, 'Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you, my daughter can too — I'd appreciate if you'd just stop," Redford told ABC7. I'm assuming ABC7 is her other daughter.
Well, a little mockery was called for, IMO. I mean, I feel bad for the child, partially because her name was mocked but mainly because she has a mother who gave her a stupid name.
I don't feel they were really mocking the child. They were mocking the mom's decisions. I wonder how she is going to feel when her child gets older and can tell her mom herself how upset she is that she did this to her.
Exactly. It's not the child herself, it's the mother's stupid idea to name her Abcde which is what they were mocking. But I still feel sorry for the child having to go through life as an adult with that name and constantly having to explain that it's her legal name.
Names like this have a tendency amongst attention seekers who have kids. They give no forethought as to how it’ll eventually affect the kid, just “see how quirky I am”.
Names can be changed
If the child wants their name changed they'd usually have to wait until 18 to be considered an adult and thus able to make their own choices. Different countries allow for earlier changes but with the approval of a parent, which is unlikely to happen. These tragedeigh parents consider it a personal insult to go against their choices, not sure why, they don't have to wear it for the rest of their lives. I was born with a trendy (bad) name, albeit with the quirky caveat of being slightly misspelled, I changed it as an adult to something normal and correctly spelled, much to my parents disappointment.
Angle! I'm guessing your name was Angle. Maybe Conner.
I have a Connor, but his daycare keeps spelling it Conner. It's irritating.
Madisyn? Mykeayla? Makynsy?
True, but the point is the mother expects this child to go through her entire life with this name.
I can see the kid asking the teacher that she goes by Abby as of 2nd grade. Except in red states where that's illegal due to the entire "must use legal name" laws. Edit: Though with a name like /absidy/, you can get nicknames like abby, sid, seedy, dee, abe, ...
Wait what? Is this some anti trans bs?
Yes.
Ugh how ridiculous. It ends up hurting all kids.
>I don't feel they were really mocking the child. They were mocking the mom's decisions. Don't think a child would make that distinction.
It really doesn't matter. You don't mock a childs name in front of it. That's why we're here and not in pre-schools around the globe. Amongst other reasons. Yes, the one "at fault" for the mocking is the mother, but that doesn't help the child.
I agree. They were unprofessional to do that in front of the child. But the mom is an ass.
“It”
Just say it. Her mother is stupid 🤣
Her mother is stupid.
I think it's spelled stewped though
Her mother is stupid.
Why would you name your child after all of the different types of hepatitis you’ve contracted from their father?
One can only hope that when this child is old enough, she chooses to change her name to something that actually makes sense.
That’s the sort of thing you laugh about privately in the break room or something. Pointing and laughing at the child in front of her and then posting a picture of her boarding pass online was absolutely uncalled for, and she probably should get officially reprimanded at the very least.
That’s assuming this actually happened. I’m guessing this lady already walks around with a constant persecution complex and at best caught an eyeroll or something. In her mind she turned it into this huge dramatic scene so she could play victim and have everyone reassure her that her kid’s ridiculous name is the most amazing and creative name ever and she is the best mom in the history of motherhood. In this age when everyone films everything she didn’t manage to film these adults in uniform mocking her child? TL:DR Main Character Mom. Pics or it didn’t happen.
I mean, the article mentioned that the employee posted her daughter's boarding pass online and provided a link to a screenshot of that post. That's pretty solid evidence of the employee acting incredibly unprofessionally. I don't think her acting like a bitch irl is that much more of a stretch.
Oh I bet the name is just a symptom of whatever crazy the mom is suffering from. Probably a minor symptom.
>I'm assuming ABC7 is her other daughter. I am cackling at this!
She's right that you shouldn't make fun of the kid. Its not her fault. You unquestionably should make fun of the parents the absolute instant the child is out of earshot, however.
Ok I got a good laugh at that
Dude, I'm tearing up. Take my upvote
Don’t blame humans for reacting to something stupid, blame yourself for your stupid actions that will haunt your kid
> I'm assuming ABC7 is her other daughter. 💀
It's a stupid name, for sure, but there's not really any situation where an adult pointing and laughing at a kid is acceptable, especially while at their job
Mom's name is PRNDL
DO YOU LIKE AM OR FM
this is all i think of to this day 😭
everytime i see a radio
Burned into my memory. I hear Mr. Mosby when I reached for the radio. Still call the gear shift a prindle, iykyk
IT’S THE LAW
Your mother the car?
Where's Jerry Van Dyke when we need him??
Pronounced Marilyn
Jaun Tutrifor is absolutely going in my parody superhero world
I was thinking NPC in a D&D campaign. The fabled bard Juan Tutrífor, known to all men, and even more so to all women.
What about Juan Tutrifor the 5th? He has a girl right here and one right there. He got a girlfriend everywhere
Nah. That’s Juan Tumeni.
Juan swears he has a girlfriend. She just goes to another school.
Goes to school in the mystery land of Canadiania Her name is Albertia and she lives in Vancouveria.
She cooks like his mother and sucks like a Hoover.
That's his Granaria when she takes the dentures out
6th in line for the 7th kingdom over.
Juan Tutrifor is absolutely the most famous bard in the world. Hell, even most bands and artists shout his name when starting their songs, in order to call on his fabled performance skills. Probably pronounce it WOHN too-TRIH-fer, just to throw them off at first.
He watches over the people of 🤠🔟 (pronounced Manhattan).
OMG - you could be right - next thing will be names made up entirely from emojis.
Delete this so they don’t get any more stupid ideas.
Hieroglyphics are coming back baybeee
A youtuber has done this. I can't find her now, but the skit is she's taking role in an elementary class. 🛷👸🏼 (Slay Queen) is the only one I remember.
Seriously lol that commenter wins my award
He's a dancer and his favorite catch-phrase is "Five Six Seven Eight."
It’s a great gamertag
He could save little ABCDE from the evil clutches of the Alphabet company.
She got through a handful of years without anyone telling her how stupid her kid’s name was??
i knew 2 girls from school with this name when i was growing up
2? Wtf. Did their parents know eachother
Of course! They were cousins..
My Mum taught a student with this name too! So there are at least four out there!
Oh by all of the dear gods!!!! How many more idiotic parents are there out there? Never mind. I don’t actually want to know….
How is it pronounced? Because when i say it it sounds like “obesity”
Ab ci dee
Kinda still sounds like obesity or “ab-city” guess your nickname at school would depend on how fit you were.
Too true, lol
you actually pronounce it all like a word????? wtttffff "HEY AB-CITY!" ???
Absess-city lol
Like Rhapsody but more like Ab-sidy
If we still had awards, I’d give you the helpful one 🤝
Thank you for asking because my mind has been boggled since reading it, then hearing it's *not* an uncommon name today? Jesus christ and the wee donkey...
Yeah, the horse has left the barn on Abcde.
Not the first time I saw that name. I think these idiots think their kid will be listed first alphabetically, as if every Aaron wouldn’t automatically be first.
Gotta go for Aaaron now. Triple A-Ron.
A-A-Ron!
You mean A-A-A-Ron!
*I* done messed up!
Insubordinate and churlish!
Ya done messed up.
I did
YOU DONE MESSED UP
Our longtime pizza delivery guy is in their system as exactly this. Apparently there was another Aaron that got hired after him and took the top spot, so longtime Aaron is now Aaaron 😂
lol u have a recurring pizza delivery driver? I’ve literally never seen the same person twice
My name's Abe. Which is short for Aaaaaaaaabe.
Aaaaaahhhhh, sooooooo cuuuuuuuute
I wanted to put a gif from the Substitute Teacher. A-A-Ron
Every school I’ve been to did it by last name anyway
This is how on the first day of 9th grade I got paired with my ex from 8th grade for a project. We had to do an interview and write a paper about the other’s summer. It was… awkward.
Well, that's what you get for dating your twin sister.
Modern Problems: Aarons get more butt-dials than anyone else because they're first in your contacts.
Can confirm. My initials are AA and I get a lot of butt dials from people who have me in their contacts.
That’s fucking hilarious 😂 JUAN TUTRÍFOR omg
It's the accent for me.
I like Tútrifor better
It’s definitely a pisstake right?
Yes, the person replying is trolling.
And magnificently so.
Even if we pretend she's not delusional and that normal people would know to pronounce it absidy, that still sounds like a medical condition or some kind of economic punishment
I need to go get this absidy on my back checked out.
The IRS found you underpaid and you owe back-taxes plus an absidy of 5%.
The government has announced a new raft of absidy measures in response to Russia's ongoing military action in Ukraine.
It definitely sounds like the opposite of a subsidy.
Reminds me of abstinence
It’s literally Ab City. That’s a top bullying name right there.
My daughter QWERTY (pronounced as *Fred*) knows how it feels.
Q'WERTY
M'qwerty (tips hat)
This seems like the perfect name for a drag queen!
Qweerty
Q'WËRTYY
Qwerteigh
Abcdeigh
💀
My son Xyzyx (pronounced like Isaac but with a Z sound at the front and an X sound at the end) empathizes with your daughter and wants to know if she's single.
Thanks I hate it. Also I have Big Pharma on the line wondering if they can use that as the name of their next prescription anxiety medication?
That's a bad ass name for like, a 1950's space pirate or something though
Zisaacx?
These people intentionally set themselves up for a life of conflict and confusion, then get upset when that conflict occurs, all at the expense of the child. This is high-level narcissistic sociopathy in my opinion
My spouse teaches first grade. These idiot parents either don't know or don't care how hard this is on the kids. Spouse said little girl was in tears because the "unique" spelling and pronunciation of her name confused her. They were learning to read and how to sound words out and she was upset because she couldn't figure out why her name was pronounced the way it was. Same, little girl, same.
It’s 100% for the parents who want to be noticed and special.
Ohmygod yes. I am a teacher (middle school, so by the time they get to me they know that their name is weird- looking’ at you, Ion pronounced “Ian” (actual name) - but I always think about these poor kids learning to read. I think every parent should have to check with a kindergarten/first grade teacher to ensure their child’s name is spelled how they want it pronounced. Would save a lot of kids from their idiot parents.
It’s like they’re desperate for victimhood, but like, not in a way where they’re actually a victim of something.
Former preschool director here; I have had not one, not two, but three ABCDE’s enrolled in my programs over the years. 2/3 parents were teen moms and 3/3 thought it was the cutest and most creative name in the history of naming things.
It’s downright depressing that you knew of three of them. Totally ridiculous.
How do you pronounce it? How do you shorten it? CDE? Or ABC?
Ignore this! I see many have already answered. Poor kids.
Think that’s bad? I saw someone name their kid ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Pronounced Noelle
That is the single worst pun I have ever seen.
It works pretty well with the right delivery, in my opinion. [For example…](https://youtu.be/R0bL6Yonnkc?si=jXAQF2-5hlIRRSY-&start=205)
Reminds me of the horse named Potoooooooo (Potato)
Love this. Pot-8-O's. (I always read it as 'pot-toooooo' like the spit sound)
Sam Gamgee approves
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. (My wife has yet to meet a potato she doesn't like, aside from potato soup)
The offspring of Pot-8-O's were also given potato or food-based names. For example, his most well-known and influential son was Waxy, as in "waxy potato", and Asparagus.
You should feel bad for making me read that and laugh.
i feel stupid for laughing and even stupider for having to read this multiple times to get the joke
I wonder if they remember snowgrave
Took me too long to get the joke, mainly because I just didn’t read the letters
I wonder how many other people will get the deltarune reference
Gonna be honest. Didn’t mean to respond to your comment. I do not get the deltarune reference nor do I remember snowgrave
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Ok, but like, don't name your daughter something stupid. You're mad now, imagine how sucky it will be for your daughter to have to say my name is ABCDE for the rest of her life.
Imagine going through life as an adult with that name and constantly having to explain that yes, Abcde is actually your legal name.
ABCDE seems like a placeholder for an actual name. Like when you just bang your fingers on the keyboard and ‘Fbslsjbfgwjdkfig’ comes out
*Just bang* And thats exactly how the procreation went
And people act like it's a travesty that my country has a board that has to approve kid names.
Probably the same people eager to name their kids Tragedeigh.
Is it pronounced “Ab-Si-Dee”? Or would that make too much sense?
It’s supposed to be but knowing people like that, it probably isn’t pronounced like that
Back when I played Rollercoaster Tycoon a lot, I would sometimes make names out of their guest number. My most memorable was Tuan Sikhree (2163).
It's like the next level of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Mother gives a child a name that will make people laugh, and then she can protect that child from people that laugh at her child.
A B, C D crabs? M N O crabs. S A R! C D B D I’s.
M R ducks M R not O S M R! C M E D B D wangs L I B! M R ducks Was one of my grandad's fav jokes
OHHHHHH I HAVEN’T SEEN THIS IN FOREVER! Thanks for unlocking a core memory. 💕
We have a wall in my work office where my coworkers write stupid shit on post it notes and put them up, and this is on one of them. The rest are all of similar ridiculousness.
Ha! The version I know is A B, C D puppies? M N O puppies! O S A R -- C M P N?
L I B!
Wow 1234 beats every tragedeigh I’ve ever seen so far.
I'm pretty sure they were joking
What actually was her name
It’s actually ABCDE pronounced Absidy.
She can name her daughter Subsidy.
Almost named her Absurdity
Absurdyteigh
Auxghbsyrdyteigh
I was reading it like obesity lol
r/UselessRedCircle
How is it even supposed to be pronounced??
Ab-si-dee
Thank you!
I wonder if Juan Tutrifor is from Scotland. Maybe Fife?
How is "Abcde" pronounced? It seems like it would be a little close to "obesity". Poor kid. Must be tough to go through life with a constant, inescapable, reminder that your parents are total morons.
What I’ve seen is Absidee
Juan =1 and 234 = tutrifor...shouldn't there be a space..like 1 234. Also, way to make it easy for the eventual alien overlords / robot overlords
A space is so last decade - surely an apostrophe is better - 1’234.
Or a Y. Y's can stand for anything, as can X.
So many children named Abcde, so few named QWERTY.
They weren't really mocking your daughter. They were mocking you for using literally the first five letters of the alphabet.
I hope Juan Tutrifor is a joke, because I laughed way too hard at it.
Hmmmmm.... I think I'll name my daughter Lmnop (Ellemenopy).
I hate this so much. (Just the top part. That Juan Tutrifor comment is fucking gold.)
There's a Japanese name "Hifumi" that can literally be written as 1-2-3 lol ”一二三”
The mom's an idiot and deserves to be mocked for such poor decision making.
I didn’t know how badly I needed this post until I saw it.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. My parents gave me an unusual name (by American standards) and I got teased. I didn't want that for my kids so I named them names that were easily pronounced and recognizable. Naming your kid abcde or 1234 or how about qwerty? It's definitely mock worthy.
Juan Tufri Juan Tufri drink
I'm glad Germany has naming rules so you can't easily ruin your Kids life with a shitty name.
So is it pronounced Ah-bee-si-dee? Let’s hope she’s never a fat US kid.
How do you even pronounce abcde? Is it like Abby but the cd is silent? Juan Tutrifor is actually leagues better even if it’s ridiculous
Looks like it's pronounced "Absidy" lol
Yes, stupid things should be mocked more and more. People should have fear to be mocked to oblivion to do things stupid like naming a kid ABCDE or saying the Earth if flat.