AIBU to have pointed this out (when asked)?

[onegiftedgal]

DS goes to a football academy and a slightly newer parent had lost her DS training top pitchside.

I happened to notice that there was one hanging on the fence and helpfully (or so I thought) informed her.
I'd picked it up to check the initials and she'd called out ' he's an STD...STD' I tried to surpress my laughter but the other parents (because she had called out the initials so loudly), couldn't stop laughing.
She asked me why, so I told her what the initials also stood for and she just stood there shouting at me calling me an evil bitch!!
I felt really humiliated and it wasn't my fault.
Would you really logo up your child's kit with STD? Why put in the middle initial?

''I'm finding it hard to believe a parent would use these initials and not realise.''

not really no, believe me i did school office temping before and some of the names I would see that the kids were called .... you would just be thinking wtf?Common sense is not so common.

It's often surprising that parents don't think a bit more about names.
Clement Freud named his daughter Emma, and she went on to be very successful in her own right.
But Emma Freud? Seriously? Didn't he say it out loud?

It is bitchy to laugh at the kids initials.

All the other boys will now tease him.

She obviously didn’t know if she shouted it out. It’s a bit cruel. Just because something’s funny doesn’t make it not cruel.

I take your point, getaway and I guess we can all just not realise things sometimes.

My ex pointed out that our 3 kids initials were STD (they werent even born in that order!) And said people will notice it and pick on them when they are older and thats 3 seperate children, so one child with STD cant believe she didnt realise! When we had number 4 I made sure I didnt pick another S name (So STDS) so luckily they are no longer “STD” ... anyway back to the op no I dont think ywbu.

Sorry, OP, most people are of the opinion that YWBU - it sounds like you're a goner 'ere.

I wouldn't have been able to prevent myself from having an internal giggle and maybe made a juvenile pun along the lines of "It's a bit clammy, dear" but definitely stifled and never loudly enough that she would have noticed and had cause to ask wherefore the mirth.

You could always have quite legitimately told her that it stands for 'Standard Trunk Dialling' - a long-obsolete term in landline telephony which you, after all these many years, still somehow find instantly breathtakingly hilarious....

Emma Freud? Sorry, @Disquieted1 but can you spell this out for me, I'm not getting it?

If the boy's a teenager, he'll probably just totally own it - adopt a second middle name of Uther, Ulrich or Uriah, amend his football top accordingly and instantly become the highly inappropriately coolest lad in the school.

TBF, OP said it was the other women laughing, not her! The woman asked why and so she told her. Bit much to then call her an evil bitch! Talk about shooting the messenger.

Although I'd have avoided being that messenger if I were you, OP. Next time just shrug and say you don't know.

Emma Freud? Sorry, @Disquieted1 but can you spell this out for me, I'm not getting it?

Let's just say there were piles of better names that they could have chosen instead....

It baffles me how so many ppl here are digging into the op when it seems the child's mum is by far the u one. To call another parent an ''evil bitch'' over her own blip shows the woman is bloody nuts and it was a complete over reaction. If anything it is the mum's reaction that will get her son bullied and sidelined [no pun intended] making a scene of that when she should have just laughed it off and it would have likely being forgotten, kids would not even have got the joke. Now all she has done is drawn more attention to it and made a mountain out of a molehill and embarassed herself and her son....

If it played out how you deacriy, YWNBU.

I don't even think the other parents who outwardly laughed were being unreasonable, TBH. If something funny, it's funny.

Must be unfortunate / embarrassing if this scenario occurs and makes you realise that you've cursed your kid with those initials, but it's nobody else's fault and certainly not a reason to throw insults at the person who was put in the position of having to explain to you.

Loving the pious MN responses, though! 😂😂😂

*how you describe

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll - Ohhhh! I've got it now!! Haha!

''Although I'd have avoided being that messenger if I were you, OP. Next time just shrug and say you don't know.''

tbf the op had no idea the parent would react like that-vast majority of saying people wouldn't, a most they'd roll their eyes, smile, be a tad embarassed and forget it.

Was the mum on the young side? Inasmuch as I would ever need to, I would always call such nasties STDs, but they've been officially referred to (by the NHS etc) as STIs for years now, so maybe she's not old enough to ever have heard the older term?

In the same way that younger people would, say, hear the word 'consumption' nowadays and not for a second make any mental link to tuberculosis?

*@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll - Ohhhh! I've got it now!! Haha! *

So sorry to hear that - if there were a 'soft and yielding cushion' emoji, I'd be sending you one in a heartbeat

I thought the Emma Freud references related to the fact that it could sound like "I'm afraid" rather than anything to do with piles?

Jeezo. First world problem. Grow up

Am I the only one sitting here saying, "Emma Freud" to myself in different accents?

Time for bed!

Nobody really considers the middle initial when they think about naming a child because nobody uses their middle initial.

YABU though, you have the humour of a twelve year old.

I don't even think the other parents who outwardly laughed were being unreasonable, TBH. If something funny, it's funny.

We're all only human. It's like when a foreigner has a perfectly-normal-for-their-culture name but which sounds rude/hilarious in English without having to use any imagination whatsoever.

Dikshit is a fairly common Indian name, and absolutely appropriate within that culture, but, rightly or wrongly, somebody with that name regularly communicating with westerners in English-speaking countries cannot possibly expect to go through their lives without ever experiencing a tiny smile or muffled snort.

"Haemarrhoid " - for all the Emma Freud wonderers .
Took me a while too.

There's a man in America whose name is Hugh G. Rection

Nobody really considers the middle initial when they think about naming a child because nobody uses their middle initial.

Sorry, but they absolutely should. Why bother giving them a middle name if you don't ever expect it to be used or referenced?

You have up to nine months to consider it carefully, thinking of any potential pitfalls. Even if you don't care, it's not your name - it's the child who will have to live with it. It takes five seconds to Google the initials or it's simple run it by the MN baby-name board to be certain. No excuse.