This is too sweet
21d 10h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/Picasso in Couplememes@sh.itjust.works from files.catbox.moe
I didnt really know my parents name until i got asked when I started school. I went, "uh, mom? Dad? What do you mean their names?"
Teacher: "You're name is Timmy. Your parents also have names. Mom and Dad are their relation to you just like grandpa or aunt."
I then got sent homework to my parents on learning all my family's names, my address, phone number, etc.
Our kid's kindergarten group also had a "homework" to learn parents names and professions, and now she has been teasing me by calling me by my name rather than "dad", and she finds it so funny how I don't like it 😭🤣
I realised today that our eleven year old son doesn't really know his mum's name (kinda) because I always call her ma chérie or by properly pronouncing her Chinese name, which sounds radically different than how people pronounce it in French. When I spelled out her name for an exercise he was doing and explained how to properly read it he was "ooooh! So that's why people call her like that!"
I knew mother's name because she hated the idea of being <children's name> mom lol. I also knew she had a different last name to me and twin.
Funny, I knew my mom’s name because she hated it. I’m not going to say what it is and potentionally dox myself, but suffice to say it’s not a common name for someone in her demographic. She decided to give me and my siblings extremely common names as a result. So because she doesn’t like her name, my siblings and I will always be known by “first name, initial of last name,” because we’re bound to be around someone with the same first name at any given time.
Mother also hated her name as it's extremely unique. Mine is biblical but common. Everyone wants to spell it Rebecca though >:(
The K version is way more metal, I'd be annoyed too.
When I was around 4-5 years old I thought 'Aunt' was my aunts first name and that her actual name was her middle name since I only had the one aunt and everyone, including my parents, never called her by just her first name without the title. It didn't get straightened out until someone mentioned their aunt and I exclaimed, to much confusion, 'Hey, they both have the same first name!'.