As a child could you figure out the amount of trouble you were in by how your parents summoned you?

[AlCzervik]

When i was a kid if my mother yell "Kimberly!!" i knew it was a minor infraction, if she yelled "Kimberly Anne" i knew i was kind of in the shit but when she bellowed my entire name i knew i was screwed and i should be looking for a hiding place or a way out of town.

[Lil Missy]

1. Yep, when they use your middle name too, you're in deep shit.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. without doubt, I was doomed. Of course I passed this tradition right on

to my daughter. Not sure about my sisters, but i imagine they did too.

[Lil Missy]

58. As I did to my son. And,

when I called him by first, middle, and last name, he'd occasionally point his fuzzy little butt at me, because he KNEW I wouldn't touch him.

I got NO RESPECT, I tells ya.

[femmocrat]

2. No.... I just got the "silent treatment'.

It was up to me to figure out what the hell I did wrong.

We didn't talk to each other much!

[AlCzervik]

3. My Mom was a first class yeller, the more angry she got the higher her voice

would go and louder. I can't stand yelling, it makes me nervous. My Dad never yelled which honestly was a little scarier, he never hit us but he would give such a long lecture you'd almost be begging him to hit you instead.

[dropkickpa]

46. Oh gawd, the lectures!

My dad was the same. Endless, droning lectures :banghead: Mom yelled at us, but the volume in my house was always set at 11 (6 kids) so it never bugged me, everyone in my family is quite loud even when happy and relaxed. Mom's discipline was always a bit half-assed. She'd yell at us for a minute or two and then go into her martyr act, at which point we just ignored it because we'd heard it all a thousand times before.

[Adsos Letter]

4. Yup...when my dad used my full first name...

the "you're a waste of good space" diatribe was set to begin...

[DarkTirade]

5. With my stepdad it was harder to tell

but my mom used the number of names = amount of trouble you're in method. :)

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Oh yeah. Deep shit was when she forgot which one I was

and went through most of my sisters' names before she finally yelled out mine. However, the joke among us kids is that when she was so mad that she called us by one of our opposite gender sib's names we were better off hiding until she calmed down.

My mother never used our middle or last names, though.

[SeattleGirl]

7. If mom said my first name, meh. It was probably nothing.

My first AND middle name meant I was in a lot of trouble.

My first, middle, AND last name? I was in deep-shit Arkansas, and knew my life could come to an end at any second. :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear chimpsrsmarter!

Oh HELL yeah!

First formal name plus middle name? BIG trouble!

All three names?

:scared: :scared: :scared:

I still don't like my "real" name that much...probably due to how they used it when I was young!

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

9. i don't here my full name much but when i do, even just the "Kimberly" i get a little clinchy.

[flvegan]

10. The softer my mom spoke, the more trouble I knew I was in.

Oh yeah. There was rarely yelling (like that) in my house.

[triguy46]

11. Of course. Works with the wife, too....

A few years ago she came running into the house cussing with her middle finger extended at me. I had no idea what I had done, but quickly ascertained that she had been bitten/pecked on THE finger by a chicken while gathering eggs. But I was sure by the tone that I had been caught at something.

[Skittles]

12. my mother had a hard time remembering my middle name

my dad named me :D

[Adsos Letter]

14. ...your dad named you...

...Skittles...? :hide:

[Skittles]

19. naw :)

Skittles was my cat :D

[Adsos Letter]

37. ...oh...

and here I was hoping that would elicit the threat of a famous Skittles ass-kicking... :D

[Ptah]

13. When I heard my full name, I knew trouble was on its way.

I made a mistake when naming my son.
I gave him the same middle name as I have.
It was my grandfather's first name.
When my son crossed the line and I called him by his full name,
it was like a short circuit.

Me: "Son MiddleName Lastname!! Don't climb that tree"

I would hear:

"Ptah MiddleName Lastname!! Don't climb that tree"


Very disconcerting. :scared:

I felt like grounding myself. or something.

[mainegreen]

18. Ptah, go to your room!

:rofl:

Funny.

[Ptah]

20. The next sentence was the same whether my parents said it, or I said it to my son.

"If you break your leg, don't come running to me".

[unsavedtrash]

15. oh yeah.

Generally, "youngin come here" meant I did something minor wrong. The full three names, well, I was dead where I was standing.

[TommyO]

16. I don't have a middle name, therefore I was never in real trouble!

:evilgrin:

[jobycom]

17. With me, I could tell by how much my evil brother was smirking.

That determined the degree to which he had framed me for something.

[SeattleGirl]

22. OMG! Your brother is GW Bush?????

:wow:



:rofl:

[jobycom]

26. Interestingly

I've compared Bush to him many times. He was a sociopath of the worst type, and I recognize the same signs in Bush. The bullying while pretending to be the victim. The smirk when he knows he's got you and no one else will believe it. The ability to fool large numbers of people into believing he was sincere. The lack of any loyalty. On and on.

But as kids, of course, he just seemed like a devious prankster, more than the monster he became. Complex emotion. :)

[LaraMN]

21. No, the "crazy look" was usually the first indicator.

:scared:

[Richardo]

23. My mother would go down the list of me and my 3 brothers until she came to the one she was pissed at

Always the full name too. But she'd just parse the first syllable and two-thirds as she called the roll:

Richar...! Jeffre....! Philli...! Raymo...!

Then if she realized she passed the right one she'd have to loop around again...


The fact that she was so mad she couldn't remember the right name only made her madder.

It was a lose-lose sitchyation.

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Are we related?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7862472&mesg_id=7862514

[Richardo]

25. I just now read that!

We didn't have the gender-problem though. Too funny! :pals:

[AlCzervik]

29. My Dad calls me by my sister's name to this day.

Her name begins with an R just like his and mine begins with a K just like Mom's. I'm sure that seemed like a cute idea at the time.

[Richardo]

31. Which of you is the older one?

I'm betting she is.

[AlCzervik]

32. yup, she's was "The good one".

[Richardo]

33. I know the dynamic well...

My sister-in-law is the oldest of three girls AND a Presby minister. If you don't think she was my F-I-L's favorite... :eyes:

Really pisses off my bride (who was the invisible middle child).

[AlCzervik]

35. Give her a hug from me.

"the good one" will be here on Thursday for 2 weeks, she annoys the bejesus out of my husband so he teases her and she thinks he's hilarious, if she only knew he means most of it as not a joke.

[Eurobabe]

45. Since my mom was so young when she had me

I was more like a bonus baby for my grandmother, whom I adored. She never got mad at me, but often hyphenated our first names before she realized she messed it up. Bar-Dar... :rofl:

[dropkickpa]

48. The rundown

Got that in my house. Didn't help at all that we all have 2 syllable names that end in the -en sound. She's yell and it would sound like "mumble-en!!" and we yell back "Who?!?" at which point she'd then run down the list. Sometimes she'd even give up at that point.

[Midlodemocrat]

51. HAHAHA. My dad did that, too.

:rofl:

[yellowdogintexas]

53. oh my mom did the name game whether she was mad or just talking to

us or about us: ultimately all of us went by "what's that kid's name?" including the grandkids.

I do that with my cats; since I only have one child, hard to mix her up.

My sisters and I were laughing about that this week. I kept addressing my niece by my youngest sister's name and vice versa.

I think all mothers do that; I know my MIL did and she had 5 kids and their names all started with "S'

[NewEnglandGirl]

27. Forget My Name

my mother, when angry, would refer to me as "you little bitch" so I was pretty clear on where I stood. :P

[MsKandice01]

28. With me, it was which syllable of my name was accented..

CANdice was no big deal but Can-DIIIICE meant I was in deep shit.

[Lex]

30. I do remember that the angrier my dad was with me, the softer he talked.

And he had this Jack Nicholson-esque thing going on when he was super pissed like he was barely able to keep the lid on his pissed-off-ness.

That was when I knew to make sure I said, "yes, sir" and "no, sir" if I was being questioned.


*whew* come to think of it, I'm glad I'm not a kid anymore.

[MorningGlow]

34. The middle name, yelled in a screech, was the telltale sign

My mom never used my last name--she didn't need to. When she screeched, "MG MaRIE!!!" I knew enough to head for the hills.

[Left Is Write]

36. Full names ususally indicated trouble, but so did Mom getting frustrated...

and using some combination of everyone's name before figuring out who she was mad at.

[Labors of Hercules]

38. hell yeah. If my middle name was louder than my first name...

I knew I was in deep shit.

[CBHagman]

39. Full name, full bellow.

Pitch matters A LOT in parental yelling...

[NV Whino]

40. That's what middle names are for.

[Swede]

41. Yep,if the middle name came out,I was in it deep.

nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. Nope.

I have always gone by my middle name. First names are for stupid forms that say "First name, middle initial, last name". I hate those. The only people who call me by my first name are the people at the doctor's office, or people who send form letters and don't know me.

Why don't the form makers realize that a lot of us go by our middle names, NOT our first names????

:wtf:

[Blue Diadem]

43. Our house was so small, everyone was within reach, so I never

got summoned. Hell..my Mom never called me by my first name or even by my full middle name. She used a short version of my middle name.

[Eurobabe]

44. Oh yeah...

If I was out playing and my Dad whistled for me, really loud, there was trouble brewing. My mother would just scream my first name. I was alot more afraid of her than my stepfather, he was a softie.

[CreekDog]

47. I could usually tell how much trouble I was in by what I did

:eyes:

[Lyric]

49. How many names were used, and how they were pronounced.

"Young lady" directed at me = Mom's annoyed.

"BRAN-dy" = It's dark, and I've been trying to pretend that I didn't hear her saying that it's time to come inside.

"BRAN-dy LEIGH" = I had forgotten to do something that she had specifically asked me to do, like bringing in the clothes off the line, and lo and behold, it's suddenly raining. Oops.

"FULL NAME SCREAMED AT TOP VOLUME" = Oh crap. She found out that I convinced my six-year-old sister to write her name on the front door, the shower curtain, and her own face...in permanent marker.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

50. I just knew by whether the kitchen drawer with the wooden spoons would open....

Funny thing is, my mom never used the wooden spoon. All she needed to do was to threaten to use it and it was effective enough.

[Bake]

54. First, middle, and last name? That's an ass-whuppin'. for sure.

Bake

[redqueen]

55. Yup, same here... full first name = trouble.

Full first name and middle name? BIG trouble.

Full first name, middle name *and* last name? Impending ass whuppin.

[LNM]

56. I knew I was in big trouble when it was my dad calling me

My mom was the day-to-day discipliner so I could pretty much brush off her yelling at me but when she inlisted my dad for discipline I knew the shit was gonna hit the fan.

[davsand]

57. Yep, I do it with my kid too. This is universal stuff.

If I can scare crap outta my kid (when she's being bad) by using three words, I figure I'm not doing too bad.

YMMV.



Laura

[Critters2]

59. Middle name meant I was in deep shit.

This is now true for the beagle. And she knows it.

[mwdem]

60. Usually when my mom sent my older brother chasing after me.

I was faster, though.