For apparently greatly offending this woman (lighthearted)

[BabyFever246]

Out with my baby (almost 12 months), walking down the street and I call my baby by a nickname. This nickname apparently offended a passerby to the extent they confronted me about 'verbally abusing my baby'.

What did I call my baby you ask? Shnuggle butt. The well known deviation of the also common stinky butt.

Wish I'd had a witty comeback but I was so confused I was speechless 🤣.

What a nutter

When I worked in Tesco I once had a woman come up to me and berate me because the gluten free fish fingers weren't in the vegetarian section. I'm used to the public being weird. But this woman I did indeed just have 'ok, she's an absolute nutter' just going through my head 😅

Someone once had a go at me for affectionately calling my DGD ((9 months old at the time) monster! Some people make a career out of being offended (usually on other people's behalf).

Call social services now. Or perhaps the police. 👮

seriously snugglebut is an awesome nickname

Totally off topic but a coeliac friend attended an event and as for an alternative to the standard food that was on offer. They brought her a cheese sandwich. When she pointed out that wasn’t something she could eat, they brought her a slice of cheesecake.

I had to give up dairy for breastfeeding due to CMPA baby. Had a full on conversation at a restaurant about it, it arrived with a special allergy flag on it. But there was a yellow sauce that looked VERY like cheese. So I asked - yes it was cheese! Their excuse was that the cheese they used was low lactose so most 'are fine'.

They'd hate me as my 5 week old is currently referred to as "little fat head" due to her massive milk consumption and subsequent giant cheeks 🤣

There are some serious nutters about. The other week I was walking through town, I had a rare hour to run errands. After I was done, I put my earphones in to listen to one of my favourite YouTubers. I walked through the town square where a lady was singing with a mic, very talented. This old bat fell into step with me and said 'lovely singer', I turned to her and said 'yes she's got a great voice' (i'd already listened to her on my way into town as well)...as I turned to her she started yelling at me 'EXCEPT YOU CANT HEAR BECAUSE YOU HAVE THOSE IN YOUR EARS' ...I was like 'ok except I can hear and I've hit the jackpot on the town nut job and I didn't see it coming' ...she proceeded to follow me down the street verbally attacking me. Good God. I literally just came out to get my kids friend a party present, post a parcel and get medication etc.

🤣🤣 that is a very cute nickname, care to guess what I call my youngest (admittedly she is now 16)? Clue is in my user name!

LOL she’d be horrified if she heard what I call my 6 year old. Mr Stink, Stink Bomb and Stinker to name a few! He finds them all hilarious.

I call my 3 year old Stink Bomb too! She's also known as Stinky or Smelly😂

I was at a wedding and a relative of the other family was there with a cute squishy 8 month old. I introduced myself to them and then said to the baby ‘well hello lovely baby’ in a baby voice.

I was firmly told I must not speak to him like that, they’re not ‘doing baby nonsense’

I assume I was supposed to say ‘how do you do’ and shake his tiny hand.

This was years ago, I wonder how he’s doing now? 🤔

We called DD buttkins.

Was walking to pre-school today to collect child, and an old man just had to comment on the fact that the buggy was empty…I mean, no shit Sherlock! Random members of the public can be very strange.

I call my son "Tadhger" (Tiger) a few people in (mostly) supermarkets nowadays give me a side eye, names are funny & personal, sure I'm barely called by my actual name

DH used to call DD 'the wee bugger'. Unfortunately she was an early talker - before she could even walk - and went around parroting the phrase, to the shock of her DGPs!

My friends called their baby Tadger before birth. Baby is now 25 and a girl and they kept on with the nickname even after being told it is slang for willy.
I was on a Teams call with mum recently and she still calls her that [outs self]

One of our (adopted) dogs is called Dicky and we haven't changed his name as that's what he answers to. An alternative would be Ricky but then that would be worse in my eyes, if you recall Bianca from Eastenders shouting, "Riiiiiicky!"

I've had an elderly man ask me with a straight face why is the dog named after a penis, a couple of women TELL me that I should change his name as apparently it's embarrassing and one idiot woman getting cross with me because her child asked his name and when I told him, she was triggered by the name and said I shouldn't be so vulgar in front of her son! 🤷🏼‍♀️

His full name is Dicky Oddball! 😂

A woman told me off for calling her little boy 'mate' once. For context, he was about nine and was struggling to see during a reenactment thing at a historic attraction, so I moved to one side said 'Do you want to squeeze in there, mate, so you're at the front?' so he could get past me and have a better view. He seemed like a nice kid and said a grateful thank you, but his mother sort of hissed 'Thanks but my child isn't your mate' in a genuinely angry voice.

I was once on the bus,and said to my (then) 3 year old dd 'come on Gladys,it's our stop'

I thought the woman just to my left was going to give herself a heart attack-she was full on screaming at me that I shouldn't have called her Gladys

She's not called gladys-but she did go by that name along with mavis,beryl,Phyllis,tinkerbell and Ethel

She's 17 now and isn't too bothered by her baby nicknames

It doesn't seem to have stunted her in anyway-she just laughs about it

A complete stranger accused you in the street of verbal abuse towards your baby, because you called her snuggle butt??

I was out with toddler DS & my DF, waiting at a zebra crossing.

"Come on fartypants" I said, & a stranger said I shouldn't call a baby that.

Dad said "She's talking to me".

Oh god. I call DDog monkey butt and stinkle bum. She’d be calling the RSPCA on me…

There's just too many people inserting their noses where they don't belong. In saying that, I use to call one of mine fruit cake, just because he loved fruit cake, he would have ate it all day long, I did have an exchange of words with a woman as she thought I was calling my child crazy

I like to think I'd be quick enough to feign shock and shriek 'OMG WHERE'S MY BABY!' but the reality is I'd have just looked at him like