Thursday, September 3, 2009

extreme labels

i find myself wondering why parents would bestow amazing* names upon their hapless and unsuspecting offspring. for e.g.: ggwendolyn (and do you sound the double-g?), or kiwi (bird or fruit, dearie?), or brothers track (& field?) and trig (a.k.a. geom, perhaps).

could it be that in a desire to be freshly unique they forget that, short of some pretty drastic action, the child has to live with his albatross well into the years to come?

*by amazing i mean a name that causes the listener to pull up short and respond (privately) in parentheses.

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