if you shouted your kids name down the bacon aisle

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wodl poepe turn t heir head ans dhtink
"hat a twatty name"

I think MB deserves a free Ocado delivery for her useful observation and the opinions it gathered.

I have done it. In Waitrose. But cheese section not bacon. And several people looked at me like I was trailer trash. Mind you, ds1 was escaping by bike, not on foot, at the time.

No they think my ds' name is cool as fuck

I think it all comes down to whether you are a person who then also says your last name!

Once went to school with a guy named Hai (PRONOUNCED HI) Lo. He used to say his full name all the time.

It does get worse for others. My aunt's name is Gaye which is not so uncommon but it certainly doesnt help that her surname is Hooker.

Hope you dont mind me joining in!

But were these people serious?

My brother and sister delight in calling out to each other in supermarkets saying things other people will find odd.

Their favourite is to shout stuff in a broad Brummie accent eg:

'Have you remembered the cup-a-soups Marlon?'
'Neeow problem. Tea-time just isn't tea-time without a cup-a-soup, is it?'
'Would yeeow like to come back to my place for a cup-a-soup after?'
'Neeow thanks Eunice, got to get back to Dudley for a hog roast.'

etc
etc
etc.

They have no shame or embarrassment

we always say 'how are we for dogfood?' as we go past the dogfood aisle

we don't have a dog

No, my children have 'boring' names.

mrsbadger - you rebel!

Bit late in the thread but mine have normal name tho DP calls them alsorts most fave 'Dave, Bendy, Dancer' sometimes 'Sid'???

i take it they wouldn't with yours!
do you have a William Ben AND rOBERT?

MY DS'S 3 AND 4 have knobby names but i love them
ds2 is Theo - i call him Boo

at the lido last week i called out'Booby' he is nine and a half - the cluster of girls he was playing with thought this hilarious
I love Terry Scott

No, but just come back from scarborough where i found out one of my son's name is a bit 'chav' and common, judging by the amount of times we heard it being bellowed by lobster-pink women in too few clothes with mis-spelled tattoos.
(it was quite rare 8.5 years ago..!)

is it ethan? elliott?

No, it rhymes with Rowan...

snowman?

Last week we had:

in a toy shop (from the assistant) "they are really cool names"

from a friend's neighbour, when she introduced us: "they're posh names"

I realise that I shouldn't call my children by their nicknames in Tesco, but hey, so what if they don't like Finty or Mo Mo - that's what I call them!

yes, taht's right; Snowman, well done!!!

(Clue: there is now a football with Ds's name as his surname, first name Michael. And if one more person asks me if I named my son after him, I may slap them.

Grrrrr FMF - I have the same with a tennis player - ds2 was born only 6 weeks BEFORE his namesake "burst" onto the tennis scene!

Oh Fisil, isn't it so annoying? Ds was born 6 monthsbefore this particular young star's world cup triumph. And if I was naming my son after him, I'd have called him Michael, not his bloody surname!

exactly the same here!

I used to work with a guy called Captain. Part of my job at the time was inspecting traders premises in an official capacity and you can imagine the reaction he got. They all thought that he was the Big Cheese. he was in fact a trainee.

Cod - my daughter is called Maude

I am constantly hollering to my dd and ds in Twatrose just as they are about to ram the children's trolley up some old biddy's ankles. They have bog standard names.

I heard "Rooney" being shouted at in the centre of town last summer.

Also met two little sisters in the library a few weeks ago called Maude and Blanche.

I love the name Maude

If I did ever go supermarket shopping, what's wrong with ocado all of a sudden? .. and hollered after my kids I would probably get a funny look for DD because we call her Moo or Mooster (although that's not her name ..but it really suits her )