People Call Me Aaron

Re:People Call Me Aaron by lotharbot on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:35PM (#10891248)

My parents and several schoolteachers often called me by my older brother's name, or called my sisters by one anothers' names. It's not as though my parents couldn't tell their own children apart, it's just that sometimes saying a name is an autopilot thing.

I recently took a friend to the grocery store, and called her son by my son's name when I wanted him to move out of the way of someone else's cart.

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Re:People Call Me Aaron by gknoy on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:50PM (#10891309)

I often call my own kids by the wrong names, and they look nothing alike and one is half as hold as the other. I also tell them to wash their teeth and brush their hands on occasion, too. Frequency of these kinds of brain mistakes seem to correlate with stress or how much in a hurry I am.

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Re:People Call Me Aaron by bandushrew on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:47PM (#10891540)

yup. I have four kids, two sisters and a partner.

Sometimes I need to work through ALL the names to get to the right one..

pap...hil...sam...ji...joan..KIM could you please....

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Re:People Call Me Aaron by davedx on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @02:32AM (#10892849)

Haha, we have the same in our house sometimes! I think I've even heard the dog's name thrown in there.

Eventually you narrow it down to the right kid, right name :)

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