You named your kid what?

I just heard about the Southwest Airlines employee who got in trouble due to "mocking a child" called Abcde... pronounced Ab City... and I'm furious... Not with the employee, who was in the wrong, but with the kid's parents. YOU CHOSE THE FREAKING NAME! YOU PUT A TARGET ON THE CHILD'S BACK UNTIL THEY CAN GET THWIR NAME LEGALLY CHANGED!! While the employee behaved unprofessionally; the blame lies on the irresponsible parents.

The mother is trying to put the entire blame of the situation on the airplane staff, when SHE IS the biggest culprit here. People are absolutely right to mock the mother's stupidity for giving a child a perennial "kick me" sign to her daughter.

I don't know what's worse:
The name Abcde or the pronunciation Ab City...
Unless the kid becomes a bodybuilder with killer abs, the name "Ab City" makes no sense.
Whatever the case is, we have an irresponsible parent, who WILLINGLY ruined her kid's life.

Seriously, be careful what you name your child. I get that you want them to be special, but some names can be a double edged sword...
Abcde is more likely to have a harder time getting a job than say, Michelle.  Heck even normal sounding names cam be ruined by a last name... like say: if your last name is Powers, for the love of anything Holy, don't name your kid "Austin"...


Or even worse do something like this:

Yes, this young man from the Dominican Republic is called James Bond Double O Seven Carrion Vargas. (Hopefully he became a spy and lover to love up to his name)
This kind of thing should be punished...
Good thing I am not interested in having Children, otherwise we'd have a Keldor Alucard, or a Winry Glimmer running about at the House of Rants...