Comments | etherealdeva: Today will be a good day!

etherealdeva

Today will be a good day!

Nov 13, 2007 11:22

I just had an encounter that made my day. I was pottering near the counter when I heard a mother out iin the shopping centre calling out to her child. Normally I wouldn't notice that since it happens a bazillion times a day. But the name caught my attention ( Read more... )

Comments 7

miska_maz November 13 2007, 01:46:30 UTC

that is awesome! :) even then name :)

etherealdeva November 13 2007, 07:39:02 UTC

:) It brightened my day a little.

mirrorred_star November 13 2007, 02:24:41 UTC

That's awesome. I haven't read the books, but that's still wicked awesome.

mirrorred_star November 13 2007, 02:28:43 UTC

Oh, I friended one of your friends after engaging in a 'hello fellow Aussie' conversation on an author's lj. Small world, huh? And Joss Whedon's making a new series *squee*! And it sounds insanely cool instead of insanely weird.

etherealdeva November 13 2007, 07:40:33 UTC

Blindmouse is an awesome girl, but I do have a tendency to feel rather unaccomplished around her. :)

crazedturkey November 13 2007, 05:54:07 UTC

Hee! Yay geek humour.

Although that is really not a good name to saddle a child with *bug eyes*

etherealdeva November 13 2007, 07:44:20 UTC

I was thinking that. I'm nto sure a lot of these peopel consider the fact that their child will have to carry that name for the rest of their life - or until they get it changed - and they may not find it as pretty or fun as the parents do.
I get the feeling that in this case, either the father was a geek or the mother picked it 'cause it sounded 'sophisticated'. She couldn't have had a more bogan accent if she had tried. If you know of Wil Andersons's stand-up bit about bogan mothers who call their children names like Shapelle - well, she pretty much fit the image exactly.