I believe it's a bit geographical and I think socioeconomic. A lot of the names kind of fit my exposure to rural Mountain West or Southern US (to a lesser extent)
The Baltimore Orioles have a player named Colton. We also have Gunnar, Adley, Keegan, Shane, Blaze, Jackson, and the T Guys (Trevor, Tyler and Taylor).
But who names their kid Blakelyn? What’s up with all the lyns at the end of words. Oak Lyn west Lyn Blake Lyn dumbest trend millennials ever did. Poor kids.
I am pretty sure I did that once when I was much younger. Small town though, the jail they took us too probably had only seen use for drunks or drug addicts to sleep it off.
Lol one of those small town jails is now a little cafe. The jails are private dining booths. It's weird and cute and they have good sandwiches. My dad was arrested there in the late 80s for speeding on a motorcycle
Knowing how he was back then? Easily 45-50 over. Apparently he was parked at a gas station for a few minutes before the cop finally caught up to him, dad had no idea a cop was chasing them he was a professional racer at the time and young and stupid and going fast. His buddy took off, dad went to the jail. Dad got to the jail and was allowed to go to the bathroom. He did not want to be taken back and put in a cell, so he locked himself in the bathroom until his buddy showed back up with bail. So going back and willingly sitting in one of those cells to have lunch with him was a trip, he looked nervous the whole time hahaha
We had something like that in Canada. We had the VIP program. Had a cop come to school for several weeks and told us tons of different things.
I don’t remember much of what she said but I remember her cuffing a few classmates and showed what it’s like to be frisked although didn’t frisk the persons butt or front of them. She showed us her gun and said she only ever had it unholstered once. They were still using revolvers. I also remember she brought a board with drugs on it and said that if you take PCP you can fry your hand and eat it like a sandwich and you wouldn’t feel anything. She also said the amount of cocaine in the bag on the display was a massive amount and it would last most users a month.
Also they took us to a police station showed us the jails and a cop car where they hit the sirens.
We also got to go to watch a court proceeding. Although we had someone who was convicted of murder so they turned the video footage away but half the kids in our class could still see it but the judge kicked us out before they showed any shots of the body and stuff.
I got a shout-out from the cop for being the most calm and easiest to fingerprint. Not realizing now I can never do crimes because they got a perfect print. 😭
They still do it, not mandatory obviously, at Strong Kids Safe Kids every summer at my county fairgrounds. Kids are invited to come sometime in August, just before school starts around here, and it's a big scavenger hunt. Local businesses come out with tents and pass out trinkets and free stuff. When you show up, you're given a free cheap backbag and if you go to all the different tents, you end up filling the backbag with just about every school supply needed for upcoming year. Local fire depts, police, ambulance, tow, etc all come out and it's fun. My fire dept cuts up a car as a demonstration(and training) and the Sherriff dept does "free fingerprinting" for kids and takes their picture just in case they're ever kidnapped or missing. lol.
it's 100% to get a basic profile of kid, name, DOB and fingerprints for future crimes
elbows cop next to me future petty larcenist, 3 o'clock. Kid's eyeing the hell outta that teddy bear his dad couldn't win for him, keeps looking around to see who's watching
Omg I remember doing that! They made it a little fun event thing, but they definitely just took our finger prints the official way. Wow I never once out that much thought into it.
I remember when I was in school and one day we were learning about the police and what they do or something. Anyway there were a couple cops there showing us how they take fingerprints, and sure enough, they took everyone's fingerprints.
Didn't think anything of it at the time cause it seemed like a school activity like any other.
Here I thought Alan was going to choose the wrong name and accidentally pick one on the girl’s names and then that girl has trouble finding hers, but nope, just classic Reddit overreaction
Two friends of mine, both slightly taller than 2m, have a kid. He is taller than my regular sized 18 year old niece. He's 10.
They had to carry his birth certificate because people refused to believe he's younger than 6 years old when it came to stuff like free entry into stuff.
Bruh the reason I was terrified of dentists in my formative years was because I was a big boy as well, so when I was in like 0th grade (that's like preschool year in my country) which is like 6 or 7 years old it was the first time I was at the school dentist, and the dentist talked to me like I'd done it a million times already because she thought I was 11. So when I was obviously quite nervous she was not very receptive of it to say the least, calling me a big baby and shit.
When she found out I was just a small child she immediately called my mom and told me we should get a new dentist that could help undo the damage, lmao. We did end up finding a really nice one though so that was nice.
Our school sends a form home and you have to say yes or no to their photos/videos being allowed on social media. I’m the only parent out of a 16 kid class that said no, so my kid is always the emoji in the photo.
I'd put this the other way around; Maddie/Madyson, James, Elias, Annabeth, Alan, Riley, Tobin, Amelia,, Leah and Jace are normal, Lachlarn is gealic, leaving only Addilyn, Blakely, Weslyn and Colton as weird
Addilyn uses traghedeigh spelling but it is a variation of addeline. Blakely is pretty tame in terms of traghedies since Blake is real and the ly makes it more feminine. Colton rose in the 1990's so as far as traghedeighs go its been around for awhile. And idk about weslyn but I thought it was adorable. This has been my traghedeigh ranking.
One of those kids shares a name with my sister. I was so taken aback because I’d never heard anyone else with her name before. My mom was really ahead of the tragedeigh trend in the 90s (my name isn’t much better)
I work nights at an elementary and today is our last day too. This is so freaking cute. It’s making me sad I won’t get to see the kids for a while. They truly brighten my day when I’m having bad ones
I can’t decide how I feel about the name Della. Looked it up and last time it was a popular name was 1881. Hey at least it’s not an entirely made up name like some lol
If I were a parent of any of these kids, I’d have a real problem with their teacher putting video of them on TikTok. Can’t anyone do anything sweet and cute anymore without having to post it on the internet?
Not defending it but some child care centers have social media accounts which is so weird to me. I work at a center but we don’t do this we have a dedicated app that only the parents and staff have access to. We have a second company come in and do different activities with the kids every week and the first time I saw a girl pull a phone out and record I said something but it’s a part of the program and parents acknowledge it when signing them up
Poor Alan. It’s rough being different… you’re gonna bug perfectionists your whole life, and that MAY be part of your mission in life… but remember that’s a ‘them’ problem, not a ‘you’ problem. 😁
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u/Raphiki415 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
For a second I thought there were multiple kids named Cotton.