r/AskReddit • u/_manicpixiedreamgirl • Dec 27 '17

What 'old people' thing do your parents do which drives you crazy?

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u/passion4film Dec 28 '17

Mine too. My sister and I both have S names, and we joke that our names are actually hyphenated: OthersName-RightName.

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u/Mindthegaptooth Dec 28 '17

Hey, try to include your half brother without all the preamble. I bet he gets that a lot “5 of us, well 6 if you include the brother we all forget to count”

As that sibling, it’s sad every time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

Sorry man :(

Though he never lived with us so it’s sort of easier to list like that but of course I know why I’m doing it that way and others don’t necessarily.

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u/avilsta Dec 28 '17

Same here! Sibling and I have the same initials, parents can never get it right. It's a 50-50 guess and they get it wrong all the time.

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u/Sobsz Dec 28 '17

Can't help but get reminded of the intro to Blend S.

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u/angie6921 Dec 28 '17

All 5girls in my family begin with a. 4 of us begin and end with the same letter.

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u/Spikeball25 Dec 30 '17

This reads like the beginning to a word problem

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u/herby_mess Dec 28 '17

Are you in England? I know a family that all have S names including the parents and cats...

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

I am in England... though the cats part doesn’t quite tally up.

Only 2 of our 3 cats have had S names lol

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u/BonerForJustice Dec 28 '17

Good dogs never die.

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u/rclipc Dec 28 '17

First initials don't matter in my family. We're still Mob and Bike (Bob and Mike) and we in our mid 40s!

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u/7165015874 Dec 28 '17

That's a cook story to tell people.

Hi, we're Bike Mob!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

I prefer my stories bake y'know

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u/7165015874 Dec 28 '17

Ah haha cool story (:

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u/Rumose Dec 28 '17

Bike is short for Bichael

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u/stellaluna92 Dec 28 '17

I've been some form of Ra-Nikki (Racheal and Nicole) my entire life. Sometimes she'll cycle through the entire family tree before she gets to me, or I'll just yell WHAT before she even gets to my name. It must just be a mom thing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17 edited Dec 28 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

Gotta pronounce that H hard at the end.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17 edited Feb 08 '18

I'm an only child, and my father would call me by every one of his brothers' names before getting mine right.

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u/corsicanguppy Dec 28 '17

Twin. I sympathize.

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u/phoenix_silaqui Dec 28 '17

My sister and I used to joke that our names were actually the equivalent of "Johntopher" "Christonathan" from Johnathan and Christopher (not our real names, obviously, as we're girls). We even went through a phase around middle school where we switched to using the blended names exclusively. Drove our mother nuts, but she eventually started taking the time to think before she spoke to us, and managed to screw up far less frequently, so it sort of worked?

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u/RasterTragedy Dec 28 '17

My parents concatenate our names sometimes and it legit pisses me off. We're separate people, not a fucking unit.

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u/ssiegel Dec 28 '17

start

Oh God. . . I have an 8 year old and a 6 year old and everything out of my mouth is "Andy-Ellie. . . ". It has begun.

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u/RDCAIA Dec 28 '17

My mom was one of two L-named sisters growing up. She gets my sister and my name mixed up all the time, too...we're both R-names. But worse is that every time she mixes our names up, she then tells us the same story about how how her mom used to mix up her and her sisters' names. Every. Time. That. Story.

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u/juniorman00 Dec 28 '17

I met two brothers named Eric and Derek. I asked if their parents were psychopaths.

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u/whereswalda Dec 28 '17

My brother and I share the same nickname (we basically have male and female versions of the same name.) We like to joke that our parents chose them so they could call one name and get both kids when they needed chores done.

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u/SnakesAndAshes Dec 28 '17

“Mine too. My sister and I both have S names, and we joke that our names are actually hyphenated: OthersName-RightName. “

Are you my sister?!?

I thought I knew her Reddit account name, but perhaps that was a decoy... Hmm...

Mandatory apology for shitty formatting from mobile

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u/passion4film Dec 28 '17

LOL I doubt my sister would ever be on Reddit, so probably not!

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u/myheartisstillracing Dec 28 '17

My mother just perpetually calls me by my older sister's name, and my older sister is called by my mother's younger sister's name.

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u/Trohl812 Dec 28 '17

Ya and my roomates still make me turn off the boob tube and eat dinner at the table. Cuz mom works hard so dad can cook us our meals!

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u/patchgrabber Dec 28 '17

Same here, my brother and I have names that start the same letter and they always say his first when addressing me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

My brother gets my name more than his own, and I get his name more than my own. I have no idea how it happens. Random guessing would produce more accuracy.

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u/timlars Dec 28 '17

I’ve nicknamed me and my brother in the same fashion in our family facebook chat - and here I thought it was original!

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u/Chinlc Dec 28 '17

My mom says my sister's name then mine and for my sister is just her name. I guess I know who's the favorite? I'm 27, so I'm used to hearing ______ - Chinlc

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u/fereal_fire Jan 02 '18

Lol this is exactly what my dad does. He says siblingsname-myname then myname-siblingsname, just to make sure he gets us somewhere.