Posted on 11/29/2018 11:10:30 AM PST by tlozo
A Texas mom is outraged after a Southwest Airlines worker made fun of her 5-year-old daughter’s name – by snapping a picture of the girl’s boarding pass and posting it on social media.
Traci Redford, from El Paso, says the agent at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, began poking fun at her daughter’s name, Abcde – pronounced “ab-city” – as they boarded a flight a few weeks ago and put it online for users to shame the girl, who suffers from epilepsy.
“The gate agent started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees. So I turned around and said, ‘Hey if I can hear you, my daughter can hear you, so I’d appreciate if you’d just stop,'” Redford told KABC this week.
Redford said she only recently learned that the agent took a picture and put it online after a friend spotted it circulating on social media.
“While I was sitting there, she took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter,” Redford said.
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This woman is a complete whack job for naming her child something that most people would find funny. The kid’s school years are going to be just miserable. Did this nit wit even consider this? And mom is the one offended?
And under what language does Abcde phonetically sound like “ab-city”? A hyphenated first name, nonetheless, if the kid chooses that spelling to get people to understand it.
At some point in time all this nonsense we are experiencing is going to backlash big time. I suspect it will start off in a big way with millineal’s kids.
A pile of alphabet blocks instead of a baby?
Should have named her qwerty. It’s easier to type (and pronounce).
My brother had a student in his third grade class named “Nosmo”. Her last name was “King”. While her mother couldn’t read, much, she did recognize her last name on the “No Smoking” sign. He swears it is true, but I’m not sure.
In that case, people would laugh with them rather than at them, so I think it's completely different. and: Spike and Penny are not oddball names: They are only odd in combination with the last name (and Penny is probably married now, anyway).
I vote that she renames the kid “Gonna Rhea” or “Sly Phyllis”.
Fortunately, the child can legally change her name when she comes of age, and I hope she does.
She gotta be leftist, absolutely.
If this dumbass mom thinks she is bothered by mocking, she ain’t seen nothin’ compared to the constant joke her daughter is about to experience when she gets to full time school because of her effort to be different at the poor girl’s expense.
What happened to her son, Fghijk?
No, her daughter does not have to pay for it her entire life. She can easily change her name to something normal when she becomes 18; possibly much younger with some legal help.
Spike was 6’4” and around 250 lbs. so it was best not to laugh at him. He had a sense of humor, like his parents.
Reminds me years ago I was in a supermarket and saw this black kid maybe 6 years old running up and down the aisles and his mother came and yelled to him “Messiah! Get over here!”
Silly woman. I did the smart thing and named my daughter after a Genesis song: Abacab.
Reminds me of the name La-sha.
any shame or blame belongs on the mom.
it’s crazy the stupid things parents name their children in order to try to point out their uniqueness instead of helping the child delvelop their unique talents or reasons for existing.
you gave your daughter this silly name and didn’t give any thought to being tease?
right....
the initials of my full name are the same.
When people comment on it, I reply “There were having a sale on that letter the day I was born and my Mom took 3”.
You, on the other hand, are just a lazy and uncreative person who when asked to create a password with four characters put in “MinnieMickeyGoofyPluto” . . . . because you are an idiot...
I could care less what the child’s name was, the agent was out of line. But then, they do have lawyers for handling stupidity.
I understand the airlines agent name is “Dorothy Dipshit”.
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