Huh...

[lithera]

I asked for some information from a vendor at work and she spelled it out with the phonetic/radio alphabet.

I didn't even think about it as I wrote it down.

This was one of the ways my parents tried to keep secrets from me. They went from spelling, to pig Latin, to this, to code words.... None of them lasted very long. They gave up after about a year and either told me about things or just didn't talk about them near me.

Huh. That was a moment.

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[seanb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know how that goes. When they tried to teach us the NATO phonetic alphabet in ROTC, I found that I already knew most of it just from growiing up in Poulsbo. For a while, I was telling people "That's Sean spelled Sierra-Echo-Alpha-November" (there were three Seans in a few of my classes, all spelled different ways).