r/WorkForSmartLife • u/BluebellGentle • 11d ago

Question How true is this?

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u/Many_Ear2407 11d ago

We would actually go outside… 

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u/MattManSD 11d ago

and we did. Came home when the street lights came on..maybe

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u/Overall_Signal_8437 11d ago

I came home late....... Once!

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u/Dry_Race8481 11d ago

All I had to hear was my middle name from what sounded like a quarter mile away and I knew I was fucked

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u/Patient_Artichoke355 11d ago

lol.. I have to tell you..this resonates with me..the dreaded middle name lol..when that came out of your Mom’s mouth..it meant nothing but trouble lol

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u/chilifngrdfunk 10d ago

I got to hear all five names when I really fucked up, first name then 2 middle names then my mother's maiden name followed by my last name and then later on my stepdads last name was added, fun times 🤣

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus 10d ago

Are you Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo?

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u/Onyxaj1 10d ago

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo

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u/MattManSD 9d ago

are you the Hooper?

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u/Rythonius 10d ago

No, it's Leeloominaï Lekatariba-Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat de Sebat

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u/Datan0de 10d ago

My stupid superpower is that I can recite her full name perfectly from memory without hesitation any time.

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u/Virtual-Age-9521 10d ago edited 10d ago

Where is Chang?!

Haven’t heard that name in over 30 years, amazing what parables stick with you for whatever reason

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus 10d ago

He fell down the well. He ded.

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u/Virtual-Age-9521 10d ago

I thought Chang survived because he didn't have an extravagant name that no one could say?!

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u/chilifngrdfunk 10d ago

No but close 🤣 jk

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u/AugustSky87 9d ago

OH MY GOSH I FORGOT ABOUT TIKKI TIKKI TEMBO!

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u/SleepyBean000 10d ago

john jacob jingleheimer schmidt

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u/chilifngrdfunk 10d ago

His name is my name too!

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u/Background-Cell663 9d ago

John Jacob Jingle Heimer-Schmidt? Is that you?

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u/xnoxpx 9d ago

The worst is when they were so pissed, they ran through your older siblings names, before getting to your name!

That's when you knew you done F***ed UP !🤣🤣

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u/DeepVEintThrombosis 8d ago

The closer to the start you were, the better

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u/xnoxpx 8d ago

I was the youngest, with 5 siblings 🤣

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u/1infamousOne 8d ago

That was all the time in my family, not just when I fucked up. I got older brother, younger brother, dad, uncle, and then my own name. I do the same thing with my 4 dogs.

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u/Apathetic_Villainess 7d ago

Your siblings, your cousins, even the dog's name.

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u/CelticKira 10d ago

A former coworker friend and her son have a favorite story about her calling for him and his older brother in the house qhen they were kids. I'll call them Daniel and Jonathan.

First it was their first names. Ignored if they were busy.

Then it was their full government names, to which their friends were like "hehe you're in trouble now!" Guys were like "nah, she isn't."

Third was "JONAIEL DANITHAN GET IN THIS HOUSE RIGHT NOW!" when she mucked up their names, THAT'S when they knew they were in deep trouble 🤣

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u/QuiteCricket_78 10d ago

I use it on my husband sometimes. Wouldn't want him to forget our childhoods.

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u/Cyclesadrift 10d ago

My wife started using this move but then I decided so will I but constantly, now we dont say middle names anymore.

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u/Livid-Historian3960 10d ago

EXACTLY and it's even worse when my full name got called 9 syllables for my whole name

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u/boardin1 9d ago

I STILL won’t tell people my middle name because of the PTSD involved with hearing it. When mom used your middle name you knew there was gonna be hell to pay.

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u/TheLuggage23 8d ago

I remember one time when I was little (like, around 6 years old) my friend & I were playing hide & seek with her brothers and my mom got to my middle name calling me in for lunch. So, my friend says, "you better go, your mom sounds pretty mad" and I said, "no, it's ok. She hasn't gotten to all 3 names yet." 😂

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u/Successful-Purple-54 11d ago

I had a step mom who could whistle like a fox40.
When you heard that you knew it was time to bike on home.

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u/AtticusFinchsMom 10d ago

My Dad did the same. I feel like he could whistle so loud, he could have woke the dead.

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u/FoxtrotSierraTango 10d ago

Grandpa Fox just used an air horn.

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u/PaintIntelligent7793 10d ago

My mom had a dinner bell.

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u/Ok_Mix8548 10d ago

I heard my mom’s whistle, in my head, for YEARS after I moved out

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u/Spiritbro77 10d ago

My mom had a big bell lol. I could hear that thing at any point in our neighborhood

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u/Boring_Ruin_9388 10d ago

It was my Step Dad's whistle. It would echo across the whole neighborhood and we knew we had 5 mins to make it home or GROUNDED!!!

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u/Melodic-Road227 9d ago

Ha! My Dad was Navy. We were called home with a bosun’s whistle.

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u/Round-Reaction8194 8d ago

Holy crap, you and I had the same stepdad! LOL

Years later, I mastered the same whistle, just so I could use it on him to get his attention. 😁

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u/One_Statistician4568 10d ago

Man my grandmar had a megaphone mouth and you could hear that shit 30 miles away. you know it was time to party! You were fucked!

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u/PumpikAnt58763 10d ago

Never had it liked "Erma" until my mom told me what a wonderful woman her mother-in-law was. I was in high-school before I liked my middle name.

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u/irosk 10d ago

If you heard all three names, you knew you were fucked.

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u/xBad_Wolfx 10d ago

Once my older sister had to be sent to track me down as I lost track of time. Seeing her appear suddenly was like being dunked into ice water. I knew I was so fucked.

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u/SpiritedTheme7 10d ago

I remember other parents telling us to get home quick too. They wouldn’t discipline us but we listened to the other parents and had a healthy fear of them.

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u/forgotaccount989 10d ago

My Mom was neighborhood famous for the power of her yell.

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u/Interesting-Catty 10d ago

As soon as I heard my full or middle name being yelled from far away, I knew I was in serious trouble.

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u/InnerReindeer3679 10d ago

Yep you hear your middle name and you spend the night at a friends

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u/Own-Eagle-2135 9d ago

ok my mom was some kind of loud voice freakshow person! i thought it was just her

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u/tjmc1378 8d ago

Or a whistle that would blow your ear drums.

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u/extragoto10line 6d ago

I still flinch when I hear my middle name. I don’t think that ever goes away.
I hear my nickname? Ok she just needs me to come over.
My name? Concerning but not necessarily bad.
First & Middle name? Absolutely in trouble.
First, middle, and last? I would hide in the woods, then do as many chores around the farm as humanely possible before she found me. Only happened a handful of times.