Quarrels and Names

I try to think of names that my mom called me as a kid and I think of all kind of weird names. I mean if you take the names literally, one would feel that the moms those days didn’t love their kids. Just come to think of it, who would call one’s own kid ‘yongmin’ or ‘yongba’? There are countless names like tsumpi, pentang, kapchi, kaptong, etc.
I grew up in a household filled with cousins of all ages and both genders. A house full of kids is never free of funny incidents. But back in those days, it would have been serious business of hurting eachother’s sentiments. Kids can never cease to be kids I guess. In my household we had this whole system of name calling things whenever we had quarrels. I remember a particular incident that happened between my cousins, a male and a female.
My male cousin (in foul grunts) to my other cousin(female): Towmo
They were fighting over the Tv remote control and my female cousin retorted: Tow po
Male cousin: Girmo
Female cousin: Girchung
M.C: Tirmo
F.C: Tirpo
(by then both were fuming in anger and were totally into name calling. Can’t list all the names they christened eachother with but the ending had us all rolling on the floor).
M.C: kokti (sorry for using this term….literally translated it doesn’t sound good. But I guess they were too angry to notice that their foul mood was hampering their language too. But just listen to my female cousin’s answer to this. Having been born and raised in the southern part of the country her sharchokp was poor, so I guess she took this heavy bulky word as lightly as any other female names that she was being showered with, so here is her answer:
F.C( in full retaliation mood): Kokta!
I was the mute spectator to their name calling quarrel till this. My ears couldn’t help it, I roared with laughter. Both of them gave me dirty looks for having brought an end to their dirty quarrel but amidst laughter when I explained to my female cousin what set me into that bouts of laughter she also joined and we all had a hearty laugh.
Well, for someone like me, as my friends say, ‘One who is trapped in a particular time zone’, I can’t help but think of incidents such as this from my childhood days and still laugh like it’s a brand new incident.