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?

UnBeleivAble

Okay. All those people saying laughing at a young lads initials is ok and anyone saying it's not is being ‘pious’...

Imagine YOU are a new mum and your son has just joined a football team. You are a bit shy of the other mums who all seem to know each other. It takes a while to fit in.

Your son is nervous too. He doesn’t know the other boys. But you are proud of him, for joining even though the other boys have known each other a while.

You are hopeful this will be a good thing for him. You would like to get to know the other mums.

You can’t find your sons shirt at the end of the match. You start to call out your sons initials. Everyone laughs at you, you feel confused and humiliated, like you’ve become a clown but can’t see why. It’s a horrible feeling, like being bullied at school. Your son is waiting with the other boys and also does not know why everyone is laughing at his mum.

One of the women, barely suppressing her own laughter, says the shirt is hanging in the fence. Everyone still laughs. You are now totally confused and distraught, you have no idea why they are laughing and your son is mortified and upset. He asks you why they are laughing at his shirt.

You pluck up the courage to directly ask, why are you all laughing at me and my son?

One of the women, through suppressed giggles says, it’s because your son’s initials mean sexually transmitted diseases! And then everyone erupts with laughter.

I think I’d call you the same OP if I were in that woman’s shoes. It was thoughtless, nasty, and humiliating to a young boy and his mum who were new.

Who the fuck is Emma Freud??

Everyone I know in their 20s calls them STDs so Im not sure it would be an age thing?

I must be weird as that's perfectly reasonable for sniggering at in my mind. I checked all my children's initials didn't form a dodgy acronym for precisely this reason.

Her reaction was off! And you weren't laughing 'at a child' you were laughing with parents at a rather embarrassing name another parent was shouting out loud in public.

'Emmas' is in the Viz Roger's Profanisaurus as rhyming slang for haemorrhoids.

PinaColada are you a tabloid journalist? If not you may have found your calling!

Very emotive creative writing based on very little fact.

I felt really humiliated and it wasn't my fault.

I’m with PinaColada. You humiliated her by laughing at her confusion and her son’s name, as part of a group of people laughing at her.

It was horribly unkind

Excepting any cases of women who took their husband's surnames or those from different cultures, none of these parents really thought their babies' names through very well at all.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3245503-what-are-the-funniest-names-you-ve-heard-of?pg=1&messages=100

If she was shy I doubt she would have screamed evil bitch at op. She other mom hardly sounds all quiet and mild mannered.

PinaColada and if the mum had just laughed with embarrassment and said 'OMG I didn't realise! I'd better stop calling him that then' - do you think the scenario would be as bad as you've painted it?

I reckon she's ostracised herself far more by her actions than she would if she'd not made a huge deal of it. Only women not worth being friends with would make a big deal of it well after the incident - most people would just move on and forget it.

Everyone I know in their 20s calls them STDs so Im not sure it would be an age thing?

Fair enough, then - I don't know many young people (at least not ones I routinely discuss sexual health with)

Maybe it's one of those 'official' changes that's never really caught on. Even after all these years, I still can't get used to the fact that a popular branded bathroom cleaner no longer shares the same name as a convenient comedy-shaped plastic lemon juice container.

@EugenesAxe is spot on.

PinaColada1 - I'm nearly in tears at your wildly assumptive portrayal of the poor, meek mum who barely plucked up the courage to attend the football match..

..until she called the OP an evil bitch.

Bore off.

I'm old enough to remember when they all took the piss out of Vicky Davis in the year above me.

Eugene Careful now

My daughter who is 5
Initials are that. Tbh when naming her I didn’t really have that in my head.
She has the first name we wanted second name a dedication and then of course her surname. Weirdly I would really not understand why grown adults would laugh and take the piss.
It’s initials.

So many odd things rolled into one.

No sane person would give their child the initials STD. And be ‘seemingly’ confused as to why others thought it amusing.

If anyone embarrassed the son it was the mum yelling out STD. Not only would that be mortifying for a boy but now all his team mates know the initials. Can’t see teenage boys dropping that nugget of gold. That’s all on the boys mum. Also, if she is plastering that in the kids shirts it was only a matter of time before one of the other boys saw it.

I wouldn’t have laughed though. It’s one of those situations you keep a completely straight face, laugh like hell internally and then mention it to a friend in a ‘a funny thing happened the other day’ conversation.

So immature. I can't believe the others laughed - it's really not that funny

Oh yes it is.

I can’t believe this woman wouldn’t have noticed before she named him what his initials were.

If you are going to call your child something that the initials make up a word or initials of something that means something a bit risqué then at least be forewarned that others are going to take the p**s.

When he gets to senior school his peers are going to have a field day.

Boy at my school in the 60s was called Maxwell.

Wouldn’t have been such a joke till the adverts for coffee came on the tv.

3 guesses what his last name was.

If you are going to call your child something that the initials make up a word or initials of something that means something a bit risqué then at least be forewarned that others are going to take the ps.

Yes, far too much to expect people to have manners and not tease others.

It's just the same as women should expect to be sexually harassed by a man, just because she is a woman. Totally normal, right?

That would've been "vetoed" when I was pregnant. And I more than likely would've pointed it out, it's not like you screamed in loud hysterics and told everyone there. She's upset because she's shown up, just forget it 🙂 x x

Meh.

My dds initials are BJ.........I suggested to myself when I realised. She over reacted.

You were rude going on tho, pick your audience and all that.

I think that’s an embellished story, so the OP can get us onside...which for the most part hasn’t worked.

“He’s an STD”...who would really shout that?
Calling OP an evil bitch?
The other parents couldn’t stop laughing while the OP tried to suppress her laughter? Yeah right!

Now if it did play out like this, then if all the adults were children I’d be calling them bullies, with the OP as ringleader.

My grand daughter's initials are POO.

My first choice boy's name would have been BJ so we quickly changed our minds. You were not being unreasonable to explain but were for laughing - although hard not to sometimes.

Really, a group of parents burst out laughing at her/her child? The woman shouted "He's an STD?"