I’m going to tell you something and hope it gets forgotten. Sometimes I wander onto message boards I have no business to being a part of… Back when I was pregnant I got into The Bump. Possibly the worst idea ever. Too much information. Too much negativity. Just too much. I was terrified of every little symptom or lack of them but I couldn’t get away. I was completely sucked into it, while despising the drama the mean girls would create and vicariously living through the naïve and blissfully pregnant. What is it about others seemingly mundane lives that is so engrossing? I guess this begs the concept of reality tv. Okay, I’m getting off track, the thing is I have been known to creep around on there a bit. Okay maybe a lot. Possibly daily.
I pick and choose the boards I enjoy, sometimes for comic relief other times just for a sense of unity. I dare not post in fear that I may be attacked for using the wrong acronym or re-posting a question that’s been answered previously. Sheesh. Makes you wonder why it’s there when it’s been corrupted by so many people unwilling to help without a slap on the wrist? Like I said aside from moments when I just want to scream “What is wrong with you people?!?!” it can be funny, actually hysterical. Mostly due to my un-posted, will-never-see-the-light-of-day remarks.
Last week I was on the “Baby Name Board”, quite possibly my favorite because the same women seem to patrol it regularly with their rules and regulations on spelling, originality, likes and dislikes etc… While I was lurking perusing there happened to be a post with my baby name on it. Gasp! (Please note I have no baby to speak of.) I almost had a meltdown ala Charlotte from the first season of Sex and the City:
No, it's not my name. It's my name, my secret baby name that I made up when I was 11 years old for my daughter when I had her. I told you. Don't tell me you don't remember!
Hi, my name is Rachel and I am a secret baby namer. I have names that I’ve loved for years and am unyielding even if they aren’t met with the same appeal as others. I don’t tell my names, because yeah someone could “steal” it or even a version of it. Plain silliness because I didn’t invent it or own right to it. Either way, I calming clicked to read the responses and everyone hated it. Secretly I was thrilled thinking that due to the unanimous pessimistic reactions she’d dismiss the name. Then again slightly defensive as to why it was such an “awful” name. I find myself stalking the poor woman hoping she brings up other name ideas. I may need an intervention.
I pick and choose the boards I enjoy, sometimes for comic relief other times just for a sense of unity. I dare not post in fear that I may be attacked for using the wrong acronym or re-posting a question that’s been answered previously. Sheesh. Makes you wonder why it’s there when it’s been corrupted by so many people unwilling to help without a slap on the wrist? Like I said aside from moments when I just want to scream “What is wrong with you people?!?!” it can be funny, actually hysterical. Mostly due to my un-posted, will-never-see-the-light-of-day remarks.
Last week I was on the “Baby Name Board”, quite possibly my favorite because the same women seem to patrol it regularly with their rules and regulations on spelling, originality, likes and dislikes etc… While I was lurking perusing there happened to be a post with my baby name on it. Gasp! (Please note I have no baby to speak of.) I almost had a meltdown ala Charlotte from the first season of Sex and the City:
No, it's not my name. It's my name, my secret baby name that I made up when I was 11 years old for my daughter when I had her. I told you. Don't tell me you don't remember!
Hi, my name is Rachel and I am a secret baby namer. I have names that I’ve loved for years and am unyielding even if they aren’t met with the same appeal as others. I don’t tell my names, because yeah someone could “steal” it or even a version of it. Plain silliness because I didn’t invent it or own right to it. Either way, I calming clicked to read the responses and everyone hated it. Secretly I was thrilled thinking that due to the unanimous pessimistic reactions she’d dismiss the name. Then again slightly defensive as to why it was such an “awful” name. I find myself stalking the poor woman hoping she brings up other name ideas. I may need an intervention.
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