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?

You need to grow up.

I don't get the Emma Frued thing??

All of you WBU

But Emma Freud? Seriously? Didn't he say it out loud?

Freud was Austrian so wouldn't have considered haemorrhoids .

I've studied Emma Freud before and the name never popped out at me, or any of my fellow students as far as I know.

I thought I'm a fraud when a poster pointed it out.

A kid with the initials STD IS going to get ribbed by other kids when they find out. I had a girl at my school with the initials VD and one teacher took great delight in asking her initials and of course the kids eventually picked up on it.

I know someone who's name is along the lines of John Johnson. I thought they were joking to start with.. nope, deadly serious!

That was my uncle's name, and not uncommon at all, I've known people called Alexander Alexander, David David and similar.

In many northern European counties (Iceland for one) the child is named firstname and surname is fathers name followed by son or mothers first name followed by dottir. So you have the likes of Magnus Magnusson, whose daughter interestingly takes his last name so probably named by British convention rather than Icelandic.

Would you all just keep a serious face and say nothing? Not even an inner smile?

Inner smile? Sure. But I’d keep it to myself rather than openly laughing at someone who’s not in on the joke, like OP and her mates did. There’s a word for that sort of thing.

Interesting that my post giving the other perspective, that you know the mum and boy might have been feeling humiliated, was derided.

The people saying it was just a laugh seem very bitchy themselves. You don’t laugh at new people, you don’t laugh at names of young lads as adults, you don’t laugh in a gang at other people. Not unless you are being nasty playground bullies.

If I were the mum I’d put a formal complaint in to the football academy. It’s bullying in its worst mob mentality form.

This thread is exactly why children think it’s ok to mock others in school !

“she just stood there shouting at me calling me an evil bitch!! ”

Pictures or it didn’t happen.

As the OP has not posted further, hopefully (depending on what actually happened) she might take on board the majority of views on here...and possibly even apologize to the other mum?