To find it annoying when people refer to their children or partners by their initial

[hanmonisnana]

“Just dropped S off at dance class” - just say Sofia, it’s not a long name!!
”D will be home later from work” - why?!!

YABU. I can understand not wanting your own name to be shortened like this, but can’t get my head round being annoyed by what other people do.

J or K then? 😂

I refer to my husband as his initials both in a text and verbally . Eg if it was CJ I would refer to him as CJ and call him CJ.
Slightly veering off topic I knew someone who had the word ASDA in sort of gothic script tattooed on his arm. I asked about it once and it was apparently his parents, brother and his initials...

I would do initials in a text message but not in spoken conversation. I am also in the habit because of safeguarding at my job where children are only referred to in documents by their initial.

I do this in texts - it’s just shorthand.
Although I never put anything like ‘How R U’ - I find that such a turn-off.

It’s so inconsequential. I can’t see why it matters at all.

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It irritates me too - but in always thought I was being irrational. The worst is a long text with lots of them in - like ‘I’ll drop B off before getting S and then I’ll be back in time for A&A to come for dinner’..: what the fuck are you talking about

It's perfectly nitmak. So what if a few internet randoms find it annoying?!

I actually use my initial as my name , it feels odd when my husband uses my full name

I agree, it’s very annoying.

At work everyone uses my initial as my name. I actually prefer it as I’m not fond of my name and it’s a nicer diminutive to me than the usual shortened versions of my name

I do this with my dogs haha! Call them L and D in conversation, I think more though so they don’t hear their names and start getting excited especially around dinner time!

I do this all the time with my daughter or ex

peers through phone

do I know you 😂

really can’t see the issue

I get irrationally annoyed by people who post about insignificant things that annoy them irrationally.

I find it extremely irritating. Also people text or email me “Hi S” - urgh use my name. It’s 4 letters

Yes especially when so many get it wrong or Tur themselves in knots distinguishing between their son and sister etc

I find it extremely irritating when people miss full stops from the end of sentences.

I really hate that as well! I can't see why someone can't just say my husband or my son particularly given predictive text. As for the people who say DDOG...

@Nt23 .

I find calling a child “10” or whatever annoying but not at all annoyed by initial, hence doing it sometimes myself. it’s very normal shorthand. Even at work there might be a note saying “C to meet JW at station”, it’s the same as that to me. I never call people by their initial out loud.

When people do this for their husbands I assume it’s because they don’t really like their name. I don’t encounter it much for children though.

Me too. Especially when someone is talking about multiple family members so DS could potentially be a son or a sister and DP could be a partner or a parent. And don't get me started on DDog and DCat...

I do it in messages for speed, couldn't give a flying fuck who it irritates. It amuses me at the small inconsequential things people get annoyed by in life, glad I'm not so uptight.

That's true - at work all the agenda items say "JS to report to GB".