It’s not me, I just think I’ve really put my foot in it.
I bumped into an old colleague today who I haven’t seen for many years and she was pushing a pram with a very young baby in it.
I asked her what the baby’s name was and she said “Lyric”. I obviously smiled and said it was a really pretty name for her, it isn’t a name I’d heard before, and then asked if it was a family name that had been passed down to her.
My colleague looked very put out, almost a little upset, and said the baby was a boy, not a girl, and it was just a name she and her partner had liked.
I was absolutely mortified and after an apology and a few minutes of chit-chat I made a quick getaway.
I genuinely just assumed that with the name Lyric the baby would be a girl.
I told my husband about it when he came home and he said he’d have thought the same.
I was just curious as to what others thought really.