8yo daughter met a girl at summer camp last year named "Internet"

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Brianne M. Kohl @BrianneKohl Mar 18
My 8yo daughter met a girl at summer camp last year named "Internet." I said no way, that can't be her name but my daughter has been adamant. For almost a year we've been having this discussion.

ANTOINETTE. I just found out her name is Antoinette.

Brianne M. Kohl @BrianneKohl Mar 18
...can I just promote the comments in this thread because I'm dying.

Elise Shanbacker @lizziellen
My 2.5yo goes to daycare with identical twins named Maria and Aurelia but she calls them Maria and "More Maria"

Abbie Petit @AbbiePetit
My daughter came home from the first week of Pre-K talking about her new friend Paper. We pored over the class roster to find her. Her name is Paige.

Elizabeth Martinez @martinezec76 1h
My niece once asked for the garden ruler. I sat there for a bit and finally asked “the yard stick?”

It is forever the garden ruler now.

Lizzie @betty_stal
My mum was an infant school teacher. One of the kids thought God's actual name was Harold. As in "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name."

ali hawkins @alibhawkins
Friend of mine went for a wax, the lady said “just so you know, you will have to kneel today”. She thought “odd but fair enough”.
Went in to the room, ready to get on all fours…
“Hi, I’m Tenille!”

Zoë 🩸🦷@twodotsknowwhy
I once accidentally called my insurance agent Princess only to learn the next day that the connection sucked and her name was Frances and I didn't even have the excuse of being 8


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[lastlib]

1. Then there's the kid who did the Nativity scene drawing.....

...with an odd fat man in the background. Asked who he was, the kid said, "Oh, that's Round John Virgin!"

Anrd there's the kid who led the flag ceremony: "I led the pigeons to the flag...and to the republic for Richard Stands....one nation under God invisible, with liberty and just us for all."

[Atticus]

2. A hymn I sang as a child: " 'Gladly' the Cross-eyed Bear"

[bucolic_frolic]

3. God's name is Harold is a keeper

That's one to pull on all these Holy Roller Rinky Dinkers

[pansypoo53219]

5. some comic i think also thought god was harold.

something on NPR.

[dewsgirl]

4. When my granddaughter was four,

Me: what do you have behind your back?
A: I have your bug ears.
Me:???? What?
A: again, your bug ears.
Me: opens her hands, omg she had my ear plugs, LoL😂🤣

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Babysitting story

Years ago I took care of my friend's daughters. She was five years old. When I picked her up from school one day she was visibly angry.

When I asked her what was wrong she told me there was a boy in her class that was an asshole. When I pressed her to explain she said, "You know, when somebody bothers and bothers you and won't stop, an asshole!" She was adamant.

Took me a little while but I finally figured out she was saying that he was a hassle. Her mom and I were both entertained and relieved. I'm so glad I resisted the urge to laugh.

We found out later that she had a mild hearing loss and it had affected her ability to hear and pronounce correctly many other "h" sound words.

Thanks for sharing this, bigtree.

❤

[barbtries]

7. my son amused his preschool teacher

by singing "where is jacques, where is Jacques"