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 🤣.

My oldest DS is 24 now, up until about 2 years ago his nickname was Knobhead. He was even saved in my phone as knobhead 😂😂

All I could think to say was affirm and say ‘it is!’ Pre-school adjacent to where we were walking but perhaps he thought I was mentally ill or something walking around with an invisible toddler! Or I could have said ‘he’s right there can’t you see him??’

Haha he wouldn't have liked me calling my dd "ratbag" then! Even my own mum moaned about that nickname 🤣

Quite a lot of these randoms we meet seem to congregate on Mumsnet.

I was in Tesco today and a woman told me she was vegetarian. But eats chicken, duck and prawns...

😂

What a weirdo! Imagine if that had been her actual name (lovely name in my opinion), how horrible for a child to experience that reaction about their name from a stranger.

But in a couple of years time he won’t. They became me what u call them

My DDog has many names- the name he had when we rescued him, his new 'proper' name (he didn't answer to the old one anyway) and multiple nicknames. We were once sitting outside a cafe with him (as part of his training to get used to being around people) and when we were ready to go I said to DH 'You get the dog and I'll take the cups in'. Someone passing by made a thing about saying what a shame it was that he didn't even have a name (presumably because I called him 'the dog') and how we should name him immediately etc. A really odd conclusion to draw, but also surely most people would see that he is clearly well treated and probably doesn't give a monkeys what we call him.

I'd love that. Really fuck with his head and start leaning over and cooing at an invisible toddler I can just picture his face wondering whether it's him or you imagining things.

I was once in the supermarket with my 4 month old and a woman said to me “ this is a ridiculous time of morning to have a baby out “ .
it was 9 15 am and I’d just done the school run

Oh my god. It actually helps babies learn, distinguish important sounds and feel good about language.

I am so annoyed by these people and I wasn’t even there!!

I called DS1 'My baby monster'. Suffice it to say- it was affectionate. I had a colleague in our US office actually approach me with an HR representative present to say that she found it profoundly offensive that I called my precious baby this and she felt that i needed some sort of MH support.

I laughed.

That did not go down well either.

I had a woman have a real go at me for calling my son Shorty when he was younger, its just an affectionate name where I'm from. I still call him shorty now he's mid 20s and 6ft 3, and towers over me 🤣

Did this deranged loony toon think you personally had control over this 😂

We call our dog fluff butt and fat bastard. 😂

I greeted my mam in her Care Home "Hello, Old Bean!" and another inhabitant huffily queried me with "Old?!" My mam was 94 and it's just a fecking phrase anyway. Some people are just itching to be offended.

Same woman didn't have all her marbles
She once walked up to my friend and said it was disgusting that a granny was trying to breastfeed her gd
My mate lost it with her-She was mum not granny
She was known for it apparently,no dementia,just a nasty cow

On the other extreme my friend was in a waiting room and a Mum was smiling at her baby saying 'who's a cute little fucker, you're a cute little fucker!'

We had an away day and my vegan lunch (clearly marked vegan) was a sandwich with no margarine on and dry tuna. With a packet of mini cheddars. I had to eat my emergency pot noodle. I mean it's not as if caterers can find out what people with allergies or beliefs eat is it.

Do you have a vampire baby?