Spur-of-the-moment nicknames can last a lifetime
Prospective parents spend hours — days, weeks, months — fretting over what to name their children. Nicknames are often invented in a matter of seconds., for example. On his first day as a freshman at Georgetown University in D.C. in 1970, he was assigned a room far down the hallway from the dorm’s communal shower.“Having gotten up before dawn, I decided after unpacking my things to take a shower before going to lunch,” wrote Phil, of Alexandria.
“I did not have a robe, but I did have a raincoat,” he wrote. “Dressed in raincoat and flip flops — and nothing else — I walked down the hall.”Wrote Phil: “By midnight, I was known as Shifty to all my new dorm mates. By the end of the week, I was Shifty to all the other students I knew and a couple of my professors.”of Falls Church, Va., joined a senior women’s softball league called the Golden Girls. In one game, she was on first base when a teammate drove a ball into the outfield.
Thirty-three years later, she still goes by that spur-of-the-moment nickname in the Golden Girls’ world. That became Charles’s nickname at work. And at home, Charles called Chuck “Little Whoona,” which soon morphed into “L’il Whoona.”had a royal-style nickname. Her name sounds enough like the unfortunate second wife ofWrote Nancy: “So far, I still have my head and I produced three sons and a daughter for my husband, so he can’t complain I never produced an heir.”constantly corrected his two older brothers about the rules and regulations of the sports they played together.
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