Nobody’s named John or Michael anymore…
Posted
December 13, 2007 at
5:56 pm by
Jessica
Last weekend, I took the kids out and about for errands and more Christmas shopping. I tend to bribe them more when they’re being good than when they’re naughty and it just happened to be a good day for us. Saturdays are usually our McDonald’s day — they have their ration of chicken nuggets and fries about once a week. Judge if you wish, but mind your own business because I’m not looking for advice, m’kay?
So, after McDonald’s, haircuts, doctors appointments, errands, and holiday shopping, I offered to take the kids for more crappy food-stuffs and stop by our local, old-fashioned candy store.
“Yay!”
I was their favorite parent.
So, we get there and I hand them their own bucket and give them a budget of $2 each. The store has a lot of 2 cent candies, so they can stretch their dollars. I saw a chocolate snowman I thought my youngest would like and called out, “Graham! Graham! Look what I found!”
Then, this middle-aged, Nosey-Nelly turns to me and asks, “Did you say, “Graham”? Is his name Graham??”
Completely expecting her to tell me that was her deceased husband’s name or something by the way she was so shocked, I replied, “Yes. Graham.”
“Oh, dear,” she says, nose turned up. “Nobody’s named John or Michael anymore. It’s all these names you’ve never heard of.”
“I believe Graham is actually a pretty common British name.” I turned up my nose back at her.
How insulting is that? I felt like she was accusing my kids of being named some goofy, yuppy-centric, stupid-spelling, made up name. I hate those names. That’s not me at all. I wish I knew where she lived, I would either stalk her until she understood that I’m not that guy or I would egg her car.
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1. Maddy said:
December 13, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Indeed, I know quite a few Grahams. In any event, I think some opinions, especially if they’re negative are probably best kept to oneself.
Cheers
2. Allison said:
December 13, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
I’m laughing at this story Jess. I don’t think Graham is a weird name at all. But I’m flashing back to Anthromamma’s story about her neighbor girl with the Kre8tive name!
All of the spellings of these names these days are getting out of hand, though. We know one girl named Kailee ( pronounced Kay-lee) and one girl named Kailee ( pronounced Ky-lee). 2 different girls. 2 different sounds.
Same. Darn. Spelling.
3. Rita said:
December 15, 2007 @ 10:20 am
It’s not a weird name. But, you know, Bean is getting all sorts of scrunchy faces to her naming her baby “Maeve,” like nobody’s ever heard of that before. Like it’s some name from Jupiter or something, when really it’s a very old-fashioned Irish name. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen my name spelled “Reeda,” when mine is actually very old and traditional as well.
Next time someone remarks on the uniqueness of Graham’s name, just comment on how yeah, people just don’t know anything about the old traditional names anymore and roll your eyes. Ignorant bat.