Gosh, that’s a mouthful, huh? But most parents have a certain way they address their kid when they’re really laying down the law.
Mr. Rilch, for instance, was always Young Man in these instances. Boss has two middle names, so when his full name was used, that was the “game over” signal. Two different friends despised being called Girl and Boy, respectively (yes, the usages were gender-appropriate) and another friend similiarly hated Missy.
I personally didn’t care what they called me, as long as it wasn’t at the top of their lungs. But it did crack me up, and still does, how one of them would report to the other about what Your Daughter had done.
So what were/are your family’s You’re In Trouble Now names?
When my mom was mad, I’d get “Young lady” or my whole name, first middle and last.
Colloquially, she still at that late date refers to me as “the kid”, even when I’m standing right there. “Oh, the kid just got her master’s degree.” Argh.
Ok, I’ll make a Doper confession. My childhood name was…Minni.
Not Minnie, or Mini.
So when they were saying it normal, it would be MIN-ni, with inflection on the first half.
When they were mad, it would be Min-NI, with the end sort of rising up in the higher scales.
To this day, my SO, who calls me Meena (thank all the gods) if he says my name in that sort of uprising inflection I still flinch, even though it’s not the same name.
When I was growing up I thought my name was Jesus Christ. My brother thought he was called Damnit.
Apologies to the old, funnier, Bill Cosby. Actually my grandfather almost had convinced my name was “Stevie Getmeabeer.” Treasured memories. I remember when I no longer had to get a church key to open a coors (for Tata, not me) and when they changed from pull tabs to modern pop tops.
No special names really. The first-middle name convention let me know I was in trouble. I sometimes wonder how that got started.
Like calm kiwi sorta, I’ll use “Boy!” in a youbetterstoprightnow tone. Regular usage is ‘the boy did this today’ and I think it’s quite possibly an only child thing, I’ve noticed a friend with a single daughter using “Girl!” in the same way.
For random not in trouble but stop annoying me moments, I call him Elroy. No offense intended to all fine sirs named Elroy.
Another ‘young lady’ here. It made me laugh, because I’d stand there thinging Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Then I’d get in more trouble for laughing.
When ever I did something bad and my Dad would tell my Mother about it he would always say “You know what your boy did today?”
And of course if I did something good he’d say “You know what my boy did today?”
Also ditto on the first,middle,last name thing. I give myself chills just thinking about it.
I also knew I was in a heap of trouble if my dad would start asking me questions and to every one of my responses he would say somethingto the effect of “Oh You did, did ya…” or “uh-hmmm…” then he’d be like “Well Mr. (lastname) you care to explain to me (blah, blah, blah,)…”
First and middle. I rarely if ever got the full three-name treatment. If my FATHER called me by my first and middle names I was REALLY in trouble, because my dad rarely even called me by my first name under normal circumstances (I was Shorty right up until I was taller than my mom).
