"Oranjello" - Yes, I can verify. Buddy of mine went to school with "Oranjello" and his twin brother - "Lemonjello". Cant make this stuff up!!!

Ummm, no.. She was NOT making fun of the child.. But yes, obviously shouldn't have posted it.

Frank Zappa still wins the price for kids names...Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Diva Thin Muffin.

Mom needs to never have another child.

Poor kid dragging the baggage of her idiot mother for her entire life.

Justifiable homicide.

A buddy of mine had a black lab named Oprah.

Aarons Anchors.
Located just down the street.

(nice try tho you underestimate my powers of rationalization. muhahaha)

You would think he would go by Richard but no...

https://www.amazon.com/Dick-Shaver/e/B000APUM6M

You know in Australia...EVERYONE is known by their nickname.

My friend, Jimmy Lane, who was there in the 80's with the pro surf tour, was dubbed "Lois".

The head judge from Australia - Terry Day - was "T'day". His brother, pro surfer Greg Day was "G'day".

And Al Hunt...because he is big...was just called "Fatty Al".... ;)

The people who live there have the best sense of humour than anywhere in the world, hands down.

Would Abcde be known as "Alphabet"? :D

Danville, Virginia? They were in my ex wife's yearbook.

https://youtu.be/qgKUHtcZEXc

First - this may be the first forum I've seen that didn't reference the Key and Peele skit.

Second, while I appreciate her defending her daughter, the first person that was mean to the kid was the person who named her ABCDE and then didn't give the kid the nickname Abby. (When her little sister LMNOP comes along, just call her Ella.) I don't get people that chain a 50lb weight to their kids and then complain that gravity is the problem.

In memory of Richard Pryor...I'm gonna use "N***** Please" for my next Lab....

LMNOP > Ellamenopi > Ella works....that's been my favorite "run" for years ;)

At Starbucks, I like to give the name Aswipe when I order a drink and watch them squirm with the spelling. Then it’s fun to watch the barrista squirm with the pronounciation. Usually, they don’t call out a name when it’s for Aswipe...

Watching "The Price is Right" when I was a kid, one of the contestants' names was "Aquanetta". Bob Barker had a laugh and the lady didn't seem to mind.

Southwest employee is a grade A beotch for making a public scene in person and on social media. Not the kid's fault that mommy gave her an unusual name. Probably should be fired and should consider a career that doesn't involve face to face interaction with the public in a retail type environment.

I sure as hell wouldn't name a kid Abcde, but unless you all want to legislate what names are acceptable which quite a few countries do, it not anyone's business other than the parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law

I might be in favor of such legislation. Its at least 1 step in the direction of requiring a certain level of responsibility in those who wish to bring a child into the world.

Jwasbury.

Certain things make a buzz.

That buzz vibrates to those around.

If the original buzz is big enough it keeps spreading.

It is like getting mad that a deck chair in the sun is hot.

When people encounter things out of the ordinary it is memorable.

Memorable gets shared to those around.

It is just simple social physics that an unusual name will generate social vibrations and echos.

Is the Southwest employee the deck chair that was hot in the sun? The small child with a "buzzworthy" name is the hot sun? And we can't hold this adult accountable for their behavior when confronted with this small child who happened to have an unusual name? They just couldn't keep their mouth shut...like a deck chair can't help getting hot in the sun?

Not sure if that's what you mean by this Haiku.

Agree that an unusual name inevitably creates a reaction, but the employee's reaction was laughing and pointing. That's plain old bad manners, like pointing and staring at someone who is severely deformed. Using the deck chair/sun analogy, we shouldn't be mad at someone who laughs and points at a severely deformed person.

haha ;)

I know two brothers... Joe King and Wayne King (no joke)

Always like Nons Mo King :D

My mom told me if I was girl my dad wanted to name me Fortune. So I’m sure I would have become a stripper.

Family name?

Miss Fortune

Have come across a woman named La-a. Only, she got upset when it was mispronounced "La dash a," and would (clearly upset) correct that it is actually "La daa sha." It's a dash, not a daash!

Have also known a caucasian/American guy whose name is spelled Adam. But it's not pronounced "A-dam," but rather "A-dom." He also would get upset when it was invariably mispronounced.

Southwest agent totally wrong for making fun of the name publicly. But if you're gonna have (or your parents are going to give you) some wildly unusual name or a name with some pronunciation that deviates greatly from typical American society/phonics, don't be surprised if people botch it for your entire life. Don't name your kid something like ABCDE (izzat for real, or some sort of typo?), and then get all self-righteous when people don't know it's supposed to be "Ab-si-dee." If you want your kid to be called "Ab-si-dee," then name your kid Absidy, not something eyebrow raising like Abcde.

Nice that we live in a society with the leisure to manufacture such problems in life.

Hey, that there is a PSA. Don't change it!

Abcde is short for Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised when the kid in line at Disneyland was named Hawk. The brother had an unusual name too...I forget.

Jwasbury, there is a difference between a name(a choice), and a deformity(not a choice).

But then if someone had a different body that let them doing something amazing I'd still think a social buzz would be performed.

For example, a certain swimmer has unusual proportions, and his muscles recover faster.

If the flight attendant had posted a selfie would that be a problem?

What if the girl were named Snow White, and showed up to fly in costume?

This revolves around an unusual choice at the center.

Without the unusual choice what would have happened?

I drive unusual cars. People take pictures, they talk about them. If I didn't want to put up with it I would choose differently.

If you name a kid a name that is the first letters of the alphabet, has no phonetic punctuation, of course you are going to get attention.

I have an unusual last name, cashiers remark on it regularly.

Newspaper article quoting a guy shoveling snow.
Name was Heywood Jablome.

Distant cousin to Craven Moorehead.

If the little girl chose the name Abcde, then I can understand this point. Generally at age 5, your name is what was given to you by your parents, not by choice.

Minds that sharp probably couldn't spell it anyways...

The person complaining about it is the mom...

Her choice.

Renaming is also a choice.

Happened to a young lady I knew. People couldn't pronounce her name right.

Legal rename at a young age. I was also that young age and remember it.

She grew up fine.

I went to school with Peter Holder. Dad’s name was Richard.

A long time ago, when Michelin still sold Xs, my favorite tire dealer had a baby girl. Named her Michelle Lynn.
A very good friend had a son while he was in the Army. He Hated the Army. He named his son “Sir.” I never quite understood his explanation, but it had something to do with hating the Army.

I went to school in the mid 70’s with a kid who’s last name was Herpe. Back then I thought it was embarrassing but he was a decent kid and I don’t recall anyone making fun of it.

I saw him years later and he’d changed it to Smith.

Wasn’t there a kid in the news recently because his parents named him Adolph Hitler Jones (or whatever their last name was).

I always heard it as Nos Mo King.

Yeah, Michelle Lynn is fine. It's a normal name, and unless her last name was Michelin or it came up, no one would every think twice. Also, almost world-wide, folks would be able to pronounce her name.

ABCDE, pronounced as Ab sid ee is silly. The fact that there's almost 400 folks with that name doesn't really make it any better.

I also know a lady who married a guy with the surname Grogan. She took his name. :(