AIBU to think different towards this woman who referred to her dh as...

[SlartyBartFast]

dad at the village fete?

i thought at first it was her dad but then realised it was her husband.

how odd.

or does anyone else do this.
is this a torygraph reader habit?

yuck

In what context did she call him that? Was she talking to her kids?

people do this all the time don't they?????

no, her kids were nowhere to be seen

oh, do you ingles?

If it was in front of their young children then I think it's reasonable, but if there were no DC in earshot it's a bit loopy (but then I think I've done it...blardy sleep deprviation)

I do in front of the children but not usually in terms of addressing him myself.

If we are sharing something out i'll say "Does daddy want some lemonade" or something.

If I'm hollering from one side of the house to the other - children in earshot or not I use his name.

what does it mean?

I only call dp dad or daddy when I am saying to ds ask daddy/dad.
Otherwise its a bit odd

oh its cringe

the people who lived next door when I was growing up called each other mummy and daddy

even after the children left home

Dur, I get it now. I thought she was referring to him as "dad at the village fete" and that it had another meaning...

I would do that in relation to my DCs. I might also do it when they aren't there simply because I have got to the stage where I can't actually remember anyone's names straight off. It takes me 4 attempts to get anyone's correct name - not excluding the cat

may be that is the reason then, she had simply forgotten his name?

yes slarty in front of the kids
they get bit confused when I call him by his first name.
mind you PIL call each other mother and father all the time, irrespective of who they're talking to. They are torys though... (and v. middle class, public school, forces etc etc)

generation thing I think - my ex-dp's parents used to call each other 'mum' and 'dad'

I used to think they were taking the piss until i laughed about it to dp and he asked what was so funny

ugh. My dad does this and I hate it.

If he just said, "your mum" it would be fine, but when he just says, "mum did X" then I do sometimes get confused as to whether he's talking about my mum, or his mum.

DH and I have gone the other way, always talking about each other by our 1st names. DD mainly calls me mama, but pretty much always calls DH by his 1st name, which has lead to a few people assuming he's not her dad!

to the dc's i refer to him as daddy but not to other people

Friends of ours call each other Ma and Pa

i do this. but to be fair my dh is called dan so they're pretty similar. As my dc are only 4 and 1 i call him dad/daddy around them, which is most of the time we're together. It's not that i do it on purpose.

Maybe she just said it without thinking. people do make mistakes

i do this but it because my DD will call her dad by his proper name often and he hates that, so when around them i will refer to him as dad.

my dp calls me mummy, sends me nuts, I correct him all the time, but he likes it, grrrrrr.

grrr for you cola

My dh would vom. we might never have sex again.

I call him his name. Dc's call him Dad/Daddy.

Only in front of the kids, not when they are not around definitely!!