that my 16 year old ds should not have a best mate who.........

[2shoes]

has the same name as him?
his mum just rang and to say it was confusing is putting it mildly

[GreenMonkies]

no, YANBU, make the best mate change his name!

[Shitemum]

she just has to say 'your Andy' 'our Andy'

[Kbear]

YANBU, whoever is youngest should change their name to Gideon. Unless it already is Gideon of course. Cos that would be silly.

[missblythe]

How silly of them!

[2shoes]

pmsl at ds's bf changing his name to gideon.
both me and the other mum were getting really confused.

[Shitemum]

I know a Gideon

[WendyWeber]

YANBU. Tell him to dump this "friend" immediately & pick one called eg Algernon to avoid confusion.

[Kbear]

I heard the name Gideon in a kid's programme yesterday and thought hmm, there's one for the baby name threads on MN! Does anyone know a Gideon?

[glitterball]

its either that or be like my friends when i was at school (3 of whom were in the same class & had the same first name) & be known by their surnames

obviously wouldnt work if by a weird coincidence they had the same surname as well

[Kbear]

oooh, Shitemum (LOL at your name BTW!!) - crossed posts.

[2shoes]

luckilie(sp) they have diferent surnames but even those follow in the alphabet.he he

[WendyWeber]

DS2 & his best friend at primary school were Sam Hi-n and Sam Ho-n. The staff had to do a lot of extra labelling

Luckily they went to different secondary schools!

[Remotew]

There was a Gideon in 'Precious Bain'.

[2beornot2be]

LOL both my best friends have the same name as me even thou one of them real name is kathleen cut down but we all worked together it was very confusing :-/

[Cryptoprocta]

A friend of ours was one of two Christophers. So he was called Chip, as his surname was Chapman. This has stuck to the point where he just isn't a Chris. He looks like a Chip*, and we always have to correct ourselves when we speak to his parents.

• Not a potato Chip. He just looks like a very healthy American college boy, very Chip-ish.