Friday OT-What did you call me?

[wxman1]

Filling in for @Angie as she continues to be a world traveler or something.

Especially for those of us that find ourselves married. What do you call your in-laws? My FIL calls his in-laws mom and dad which I have always found odd. I just call them by their first name.

A secondary one would be non traditional names for grandparents.

 

[intrepid27]

My wife's family is from Oklahoma. One of her uncles always referred to me as "Dam Yankee" for 10 years after we married until the day he died. Not sure he ever knew what me name was.

 

[Donqluione]

Deceased, unfortunately.

First names while living. Our SIL/DILs call us by first names, might be something else for me privately

 

[Gonzo]

Filling in for @Angie as she continues to be a world traveler or something.

Especially for those of us that find ourselves married. What do you call your in-laws? My FIL calls his in-laws mom and dad which I have always found odd. I just call them by their first name.

A secondary one would be non traditional names for grandparents.

My parents did the same with my grandparents, definitely a generational thing.

First names here.

 

[BCClone]

I call my in-laws morons. I avoid them as much as possible. If I have to use a name I use first names. In-laws aren’t blood. Don’t use blood names.

 

[Al_4_State]

My wife's family is from Oklahoma. One of her uncles always referred to me as "Dam Yankee" for 10 years after we married until the day he died. Not sure he ever knew what me name was.

He knew Oklahoma wasn’t in the Confederacy right? It was still a Native American reservation called “Indian Territory” during the Civil War and just kind of its own entity

 

[Al_4_State]

Filling in for @Angie as she continues to be a world traveler or something.

Especially for those of us that find ourselves married. What do you call your in-laws? My FIL calls his in-laws mom and dad which I have always found odd. I just call them by their first name.

A secondary one would be non traditional names for grandparents.

I call my in-laws by their first names.

Kind of an aside, but I know spouses that refer to each other as “mom” and “dad” and that’s strange to me.

 

[houjix]

While I thought of my FIL as like a second dad, I never would have called him dad to his face. I called him by his first name, same with the MIL.

My wife has an aunt that thinks of me as her nephew which I find weird. I would never refer to her as my aunt, only as my wife's aunt.

 

[EnhancedFujita]

While we were on speaking terms we used first names. Now they are psycho ***** and alcoholic jackass.

 

[Sousaclone]

No in-laws for me, but all my siblings & their spouses refer to the in laws by their first name (my one BIL still refers to my dad as Mr. --- sometimes).

What do people call either your parents friends or your friends parents? And has has it changed when you got to be an adult?

 

[wxman1]

I call my in-laws by their first names.

Kind of an aside, but I know spouses that refer to each other as “mom” and “dad” and that’s strange to me.

We do in front of the kids but other than that no.

No in-laws for me, but all my siblings & their spouses refer to the in laws by their first name (my one BIL still refers to my dad as Mr. --- sometimes).

What do people call either your parents friends or your friends parents? And has has it changed when you got to be an adult?

This is a good one. Growing up it was Mr./Mrs. XYZ but I have tended to be more first name now that I am in my 30s.

 

[pourcyne]

I think mine were in Witness Protection. Neither one of them went by their real names. Everyone was on a first name basis, though.

 

[CascadeClone]

What do people call either your parents friends or your friends parents? And has has it changed when you got to be an adult?

Yeah it would be Mr or Mrs back in the day when we were elementary age. Once we were in later high school though, and were on good terms, we'd say "hi Ted's mom" or "hi Doug's dad" as kind of a middle ground between too formal and first-name.

My kids probably was more first names, once the parent said "just call me (first name)" with their friends - which is usually what people do now introducing themselves to a kid. They would use sir/ma'am a lot with newly met adults though, just a TKD habit.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I started off calling my inlaws by their first names. My mother passed after I had been married for about 2 years. At that point my MIL started morphing into my mother figure (we had a great relationship) and I started calling her Mom. FIL, I flipped back & forth between first name & dad, but usually dad as he and my ex shared the same first name.

Second set of inlaws, it was first name for FIL as he was a step dad & everyone called him by his first name. His mother I called by her first name as we were never really close.

 

[CRcyclone6]

We are on a first name basis.

 

[CYdTracked]

I just call my in laws by their first names and I am sure my wife would prefer that too. Pretty sure my FIL would have found it creepy and shut that down right away if I ever called him dad.

As for grandparents I don't really remember me calling them anything other than grandpa and grandma but my brother would call them paw paw and granny.

 

[RLD4ISU]

First names. My MIL died a few years ago. FIL remarried and I just can’t call her my MIL. Nice lady & I like her. I introduce her (to new people she hasn’t met) as my FIL’s wife and give her first name.

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

In-laws are called by their first names.

The grandparent thing is interesting. When my daughter was pregnant with our first grandchild, my wife insisted that she would be Grammy and I would be Grampy. My argument was 'no way...the first grandkid gets to choose'. They all insisted that we needed names before the kid was old enough to talk/choose for himself and that was that. I said fine, I will be Grandmaster J. Naturally, that did not fly and I am now Grampy.

 

[CascadeClone]

In-laws are called by their first names.

The grandparent thing is interesting. When my daughter was pregnant with our first grandchild, my wife insisted that she would be Grammy and I would be Grampy. My argument was 'no way...the first grandkid gets to choose'. They all insisted that we needed names before the kid was old enough to talk/choose for himself and that was that. I said fine, I will be Grandmaster J. Naturally, that did not fly and I am now Grampy.

You will always be Grandmaster J to us.

 

[CyCrazy]

I call my fil by his first name, my mil is called a b*tch.