Not sure if this has been done before, but just thinking about a famous-in-our-family story when I was reading the baby names thread made me wonder what if mumsnet had been around when our grandparents were parents...
AIBU to be cross with my DH for giving ds2 a completely different name to the one we had chosen. I packed him off to register little one this morning calling baby Alan. He came home telling me 'This isn't Alan, I've picked a new name'. A name he'd found in a book someone left behind on the bus! Noone's going to be able to spell it either 
. Do I need some mumsnet perspective here, or AIB reasonable to want to string him up by his winkle tie?
PS Use of word winkle to stop Nana spinning in her grave. In RL she would've used a much much different one 
AIBU?
AIBUs your Grandma might have written...
lakeofshiningwaters · 05/09/2012 11:30
Paternal GM:
AIBU to not take cheating H back into our home now that he has (he says) finished with his latest floozy? When he was here, it was nothing but gaslighting and financial/emotional abuse - DS and I are so much happier without him.
A few months later, she would have been back with:
AIBU to be sobbing in the street after 'D'H evicted me and our little DS from OUR HOME?
Women weren't allowed their names on the rent book in those days He charmed his way back into her life just so he could turf them out and take the house.
There would then follow years of "AIBU to think that ExH should put his hand in his pocket and pay some bloody child support?"
My granny would've got into right old rows on MN!
she might've found feminism section: why have I been fired from my job now the war is over? Why did I have to leave school to work at 13 when my brother stayed on, and even went to uni, even though I was cleverer and more hardworking? Why do the men get education and jobs? Why is there no reliable contraception (and I am seen as a bad wife if I refuse sex).
Why do I do all housework and childcare, but not control most of the money, when we both work?
Why when our baby son died of leukemia did they ask my DH permission for a post-mortem and not consult me?
she was 
Another birth certificate one here.
My nan sent my grandad off to register my aunt's birth with the chosen name 'Katherine'. Unfortunately, the registrar misheard my grandfather and registered the child as 'Kathleen'. My grandad was too embarrassed / shy to correct him do my aunt has been lumbered with Kathleen all her life! My nan has never forgiven him for that 
. It only happened over 50 years ago now.
Still, to make amends I now have a Katherine, and every time I call her by her full name, my nan always points out what a lovely name Katherine is and how much nicer it is than the awful Kathleen my poor aunt ended up with. You'd think after 50 years she'd let it go.
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(NC as these are instantly recognisable to family :)
These would be just a few of my grandmother's many AIBUs ..
AIBU for earning myself 28 days confined to barracks for throwing an ink-well at the major for making a pass at me?
AIBU for walking out of school and refusing to go back after the nuns told me Princesses Elizabdeth & Margaret (during the coronation) wouldn't go to heaven because they weren't Catholic?
AIBU for getting a postman to help me start my husband's new car so that I can drive it even though I have never driven before? (I'll later go on to drive on a racetrack)
AIBU for discharging myself against medical advice a week after major surgery because they keep getting cross that I'm walking to the shop to buy
my newspaper?
She was a thoroughly unreasonable and amazing woman 
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