Am I a laughing stock?

It's the sort of thing mean girls at high school would bitch about in the toilet.
It's more cringey that they haven't moved passed that stage in their life.

You've just reminded me of something @CovidHeadache - growing up we lived in a mid-terraced house in the town, as did most of my friends and family. One of my aunts married a farmer and so they lived in an obviously detached farmhouse surrounded by fields - we used to call it The Compound** (as in the Kennedy Compound). It was a light-hearted joke, but it definitely became an affectionate nickname - me & my cousins still call it that.

** we, as in my family including my aunt, uncle and cousins. We weren't making fun of them!

I find it quite funny op.

In the grand scheme of things what does it matter.

When I take ages answering the phone or the door, I will often say oh sorry, I was in the west wing and I give no shits what anyone thinks.

Crack on.

I think you are fine but your sister and mum are being horrible.
I like your joke.

Completely agree.

Oh god I found myself with such bad second hand embarrassment reading that.

I like it, I don't find it cringey at all.
I certainly wouldn't think anything of this or even bring it up in conversation with other people.

They sound nasty. It's a harmless habit.

Let me guess, you make more effort with your sister and mum then they do with you?

I would dial it right back.

If people are so cringed at being invited to Jackson Towers then they should be invited far less than they are.

Let them host the Halloween, you have a lovely time with your dc.

Ah, multi storey? Rename it “The car park”.

So would I, but I’m fairly petty and childish, so I’d make it into even more of a thing just out of spite.

YABU here, the towers thing is surely a lighthearted laugh at yourself too? Obviously people would have a little laugh at it and you can see it’s cringy? Why then take offence when someone points it out? Why would you give your house/family a silly title if not for a bit of a laugh?

I never fail to be amazed that people would give so much thought to unimportant things. In this case, what you (clearly jokingly) call your house. Something that really is of no consequence to them at all.
And I think it’s very cruel of them to laugh and talk about you behind your back, too. Are they nasty and judgey about other things? I imagine they’re always keen to accept your hospitality, though.

Lean into it OP! Go full on Lady @CovidHeadache Jackson, of Jackson Towers 😃

I think I'd be doubling down and very much continue using it. I'd expect a trusted family member to sensitively tell me much earlier if I was doing something a bit odd/something open to ridicule so I could decide how I wanted to navigate, not wait years and then laugh at me and tell me everybody else thinks its stupid too. I'd be very disappointed in my family for this.

So many strong opinions, about something so daft.

I know someone who calls his own house X Towers, and I always thought it was charming.

Your family have kinda ruined it for you now, and I’m sorry about that.

It makes me think of those 3 bed semis and terraces in the 70s/80s that had ‘house names’ on plaques. Jimilda etc. I think in my mining town one long street had 3 with Owl Dene on the front and no owls to be seen. 🤪

The difference is she/they let it go on for years and then snapped over it during a fairly harmless conversation. That’s a lot more twatty than OP and her towers.

Harmless, but yeah it's a bit David Brent.

Saying it every now and then, fine. But constantly referring to your house with some cutesy “funny” nickname is cringe and annoying. It’s in the same vain that people say “elf and safety”, or when my Dad says you have to “read the destructions” instead of instructions. It’s just really not as funny as you think.

I have a friend who refers to her children as her monsters and it does my head in. But I just don’t find word play and cheesy nicknames very funny.

It’s too Hyacinth Bucket. Keeping it going with Xmas cards etc just smacks of having notions but downplaying it by pretending its a joke whenever possible.

It was your sister that mentioned it first? It’s a siblings job to point out when they think their sister or brother is behaving in a wanky way. I would if one of mine was. They’d do the same for me. Family innit.

God people can be so spiteful and joyless.

At worst its a bit of a cliche but who cares? Imagine expending that much of your energy bitching about something this innocuous.

Honestly if my family were this nasty I would probably double down on it all. But I am a contrary SOB.

Mmm sorry OP, there's a line between signing off a card 'all at X towers' as a shorthand way of listing all names out, to verbally saying 'oh everyone come to the towers'.

I wouldn’t lose sleep over it OP, it’s probably just the sort of thing that your family and friends have rolled their eyes over rather than full blown laughing stock.

It’s the sort of joke that might have been funny on the odd party invite but to use it in everyday conversation like ‘we can go back to the towers’ is a bit overkill!

We have friends whose house has a name. They always refer to the house by the name rather than just saying “our house”. So say the name was High Manor, they say “would you like to come for dinner at High Manor?” Instead of “would you like to come to ours for dinner?” It’s cringey and annoying and I roll my eyes every time they do it! But they are generous with their hospitality so I never joke about it with others behind their back!