A woman has revealed how her friend got really upset after she told her the meaning behind her favorite baby name.
The anonymous woman took to Reddit and explained that her friend always shares potential baby names with them but her favorite was actually an STI.
“So my friend is about 5 months pregnant and has been talking about baby names with her partner lately. She’s having a girl and likes to run some of her ideas by our friend group to see what we think,” she wrote.
She continued: “Yesterday we all got together to hang out and she told us her latest favorite.
“Chlamydia.
“Before I had time to get over my shock, she starts going on about how ever since we had to read The Odyssey in high school, she’s always liked her in Greek mythology. It takes a minute but from the context she gives in the conversation I figure out that she’s talking about Clytemnestra (if you don’t know and don’t want to search, she’s the wife of king Agamemnon and sister of Helen of Troy).
“So I interrupt her and go, ‘Wait, you mean Clytemnestra not Chlamydia. Right?’ And she’s all, ‘No, I meant Chlamydia.’”
The woman explained to her friend that she’s got the names mixed up and that chlamydia is actually an std.
“After I bring up a google search to prove my point, she gets all awkward and quiet. The mood for the rest of our time together kinda soured,” she went on.
But when she got home, she received a text from her pregnant friend telling her that she was a ‘bad friend’ for embarrassing her in front of everyone. She ignored the text but “then I got a couple other texts from our other friends telling me how she was really upset and telling me I should apologize to her.”
The woman is now asking if she was in the wrong for telling her friend the meaning behind her favorite baby name.
People on Reddit were quick to share their thoughts, with one person writing: “If she’s old enough to be pregnant, she should be old enough to know what chlamydia is. She embarrassed herself.”
Another wrote: “You were the only real friend there if no one else was gonna say anything.”
A third said: “You didn’t embarrass her – every single person within earshot already clocked her mistake – you were the only person decent enough to correct her.”
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