[Tom4784]

Southwest Airlines has apologised after a member of its staff mocked a five-year-old girl's name.

Traci Redford and her daughter, Abcde (pronounced ab-si-dee), were en route home to El Paso, Texas, from California's John Wayne Airport when the incident occurred.

A gate agent allegedly began laughing and took a photo of the child's boarding pass and posted it online.

Airline spokesperson Chris Mainz offered the family a "sincere apology".

Ms Redford said the gate agent "started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees", and her daughter had asked her why they were mocking her.

"She said: 'Mom, why is she laughing at my name?' And I said not everyone is nice and not everyone is going to be nice and it's unfortunate," Ms Redford said.

Vocativ, a news and data website, published a piece in 2014 saying there were at that time 328 children in the US named "Abcde", according to the Social Security Administration.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46393501

The employee was in the wrong for posting it online and laughing in front of the customers but wtf is the mother thinking with that spelling? Why not spell it Absidee or Absidy if she wanted to give her daughter a unique name? That girl is gonna get mocked relentlessly until she's old enough to change her name.

Names like that are basically child abuse.

[Matthew.]

I agree with you, the employee shouldn’t have gone as far as to have posted it online but naming your kid Abcde? That’s just beyond stupid

[RileyH]

Abcde

[Niamh.]

Poor kid, idiot airline worker, moronic parents

[arista]

Yes posting online
Sack that Staff member

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

The employee was in the wrong for posting it online and laughing in front of the customers but wtf is the mother thinking with that spelling? Why not spell it Absidee or Absidy if she wanted to give her daughter a unique name? That girl is gonna get mocked relentlessly until she's old enough to change her name.

Names like that are basically child abuse.

Agree with you, very unprofessional of the airline employee, but she has left her child open to years of abuse

[Ramsay]

Pretty funny name in fairness haha

[Strictly Jake]

Very unprofessional of the airline employee

But abcde? That is just lazy naming

[Livia]

If you name your kid something daft you're going to have to expect people to take the piss.

[Oliver_W]

I feel sorry for her brother Qwerty (pronounced Quincy)

[Smithy]

First rule of mocking a customer/client is to never do it whilst they’re around

[Withano]

Her brother fghij (pronounced fug-hije) is also ****ing furious.

[Withano]

Just saw Oliver got there first. But like, mines funnier so pretend he didnt.

[Eddie.]

The airline worker shouldn't have done that and the kid's parents are also at fault by naming their child a name someone people are SURE to make fun of...

Poor little girl

[LeatherTrumpet]

one of 300 odd kids with that name in the USA

thick ignorant twats

[Shaun]

Lowkey impressed they could get to the fifth letter of the alphabet, to be honest

[LeatherTrumpet]

This kind of thing really winds up my mate Qwerty Uiop

he will be fuming