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TIFU by naming my kid

First, this actually happened 12 days ago. And before anyone calls me AH, my wife and I are already looking at a name change, and this isn’t AmITheAsshole. After getting pressured by our families, we decided to look into the gender of our future newborn (they want to get appropriate gifts and what not). My party planner cousin wanted to throw us a gender reveal party which we agreed to. After a few weeks of anticipation, we had our party. We cut into the cake and found out we were having a boy! Now we started getting gifts but the looming question is “what are you going to name him???” Well 5 weeks ago my wife and I started talking about names. I blanked. I wanted something traditional from my German background and she wanted something more main stream as we live in the US. But we never could decide on anything. Days go by. Then weeks. Now we are just days away from the birth; go bag is packed, arrangements for dogs were made, and we are just waiting for the birth. Oh, but no name still. We decide we will make it a “game time call” as you Americans call it. To the fuck up. Well the day of the birth comes, and I come up with an unique sounding name. Incorporates what my wife was looking for while my heritage also shines. She couldn’t be happier and our family loves the name. But something weird happened as we were being discharged. I’ll be the first to admit it, my son has a weird name. No, not password security level weird name, but definitely not 100% ‘normal’. I guess his name was being talked about by some of the nurses and staff. People starting whispering his name towards us as we were being discharged. Some patients may have heard it also as they started saying it as well. I go get the car for my wife, and we start putting our boy in his car seat and get my wife settled. Somehow people outside our car and in the parking lot were also saying his name. Almost rejoicing in it. Did my wife and I make a mistake here naming him something unconventional? It’s been almost 2 weeks now. His name plus his pic must have gotten out there. Everywhere we go people yell his name at us. We can’t go anywhere anymore without constant harassment. Like did someone put an apple air tag on him and publicly display his location?! Everyone always knows when he is in public. We don’t know silence anymore. It seems that whenever he goes out, the people always shout, there goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

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