Let’s file this one under The Most Inappropriate Baby Name Comment I’ve Ever Received.
So on Sunday I went to the supermarket to order a birthday cookie cake for my son, Jacob, who is turning 9. I happened to have my baby, Charlie, with me on this errand.
The guy who worked at the bakery looked at my innocent little one-year-old and said, “Ah, a werewolf baby.”
Me: “Excuse me?”
Bakery guy: “I see a lot of birthday cakes for Twilight babies these days. I guess you were inspired by Jacob when this little guy was cooking.”
And then he went on to rant about how Jacob from Twilight isn’t a legit “werewolf” because werewolves don’t actually fly.
“Huh?” I sputtered, because at the time I was trying to figure out what he was talking about (it was genuinely confusing because again, the son I had with me was named Charlie and not Jacob). It was only when I was driving home that I realized the Publix Bakery Man had just:
- Called my child a werewolf.
- Made a deduction about what fictional character was running through my mind when I was conceiving a baby!!
- Believes that the character who inspired me to name my child is not even very good at being a werewolf.
So ultimately I am a woman who named her child after a bad werewolf.
Harumph.