Southwest Apologizes to Mother After Employee Mocks Daughter Named “Abcde”

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Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks

It could have been worse. The child could have been named Password.

There are those who have carried the placeholder name Infant or Child to adulthood.

One of my established favorites is "Orenthal." Mrs. Simpson supposedly named him after a favorite Italian actor, who has never been successfully identified...

[OHNot4Me]

Originally Posted by boxus

Agent is wrong, but damn, that parent is an idiot and deserves to be mocked for naming the kid such a stupid name.

This is just the beginnng for the kid...I am sure she will use an alternative name pretty quickly.

May I suggest 12345?

[maus]

The Southwest employee was way out of line. She should lose her job for exposing someone's personal info on social media. The mother was stupid to name her kid something extremely lame. I do feel bad for the little girl. Life goes on.

In the past, I've been at jobs where I have seen some awful names. Even so, I still get a chuckle about some very terrible names.

[blisterpeanuts]

On the bright side, it's easy to spell!

[OHNot4Me]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

Why would he be scared? Plenty of people go by initials, that's not unusual.

Abcde is not this childs initials, it's her name. I guess the only redeeming factor is that it's pronounced ab-city, and not a.b.c.d.e...

Probably meant scarred, not scared.

And, um, I think you missed the joke.

Richard Cranium=Dick Head

Classic junior high school fodder, that one. LOL

[ContraPagan]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

Posting the boarding pass was stupid.
I do wonder why the mom stopped at E, why not Abcdefghi to really make a statement! Or did she think that would be too hard to spell?

I used to have a 45 RPM from Sesame Street that had Big Bird pronouncing the entire alphabet like it was one word - "it starts out like an "a" word, as anyone can see, but somewhere in the middle it gets awfully ***** to me!"

Thank you, YouTube!

https://youtu.be/HJ7PQql51LI

[OHNot4Me]

Originally Posted by oceangaia

Her brother, Eieio, has it worse. Especially since his last name is McDonald and he lives on a farm.

OMG! I should not be reading this thread at work. LOL

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Originally Posted by melaniej65

DH had a Commander named Richard Johnson and he went by "Dick". Of course the company laughed about this A LOT.

His superiors took it further referring to him as "Dickie" or worse "foreskin".

That use to be a fairly common name, "Dick" not "foreskin". I have known several men by the name "Dick" I imagine their given name was Richard.

[OHNot4Me]

Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415

Abcde is one of the worst and least original names in existence (not at all original being just the first 5 letters of the alphabet). Parents think they're being cool and unique with these stupid "trendy" names, but they're setting their kids up to be made fun of and not taken seriously for life.

It's like using "password" for your password. LOL

[OHNot4Me]

Originally Posted by corsa71

I heard the mother's favorite song was Bohemian Rabcde

This comment takes the cake.