Part 5
Recently I imagined how I was standing at the checkout yelling at my whiny, stubborn daughter; ?Summer-Sky! Put the surprise eggs back, right now!?
And everyone?s gonna think; ?Terrible child! No wonder, with that weird name??
Unusual names only work when you?re a popstar and the kids are only taken to the house by a nanny once in a while. For daily fights names like Apple, Cosma, Brooklyn and San Diego are useless.
I?m not a popstar, so I also said goodbye to the thought that our daughter should be names Ibiza. There I had a crush on the neighbour boy when we went on a vacation when I was 12 ? but lost him for 20 years ? then started dating him a year ago. I?d have to tell this private romance all the time, so no one thought she was the result of a quickie at an opening party of a club.
?Names shape the person,? my sister warned me and put me with that under even more pressure.
?First of all the consonants and vowels have to harmonize. Like Lena.?
So I ask little Lena if she likes her name.
?Chantal is way prettier!? she shouts. ?And my brother wants to be named Sascha.?
So you can screw kids as a ?taste control?. After all they would run around wearing fairy dresses and football jerseys every day.
Also a huge mistake: talking about your favorites. The tiniest comment is enough to make you wanna cross it off the hit list.
?I like Minna. My grand-aunt was called Minna. She had this huge wart on her chin with a long hair coming out of it.? Or; ?I think Charlotte is really cute. That?s the name of our neighbor?s daughter. And the friend of my niece. And the little girl from the bakery too.?
Now we know how our daughter?s name?s going to be. And that?s a secret. The consonants and vowels harmonize. You don?t have to explain it or spell it out and it?s suitable for supermarket ? dramas.
The trick: Suddenly I realized that my closest friends are called Hilda, Ingrid and Helmut and they?re still the coolest people on this planet. And that I know about 15 Stephanies ? and every single one is unique and uncomparable.
