Nickname Stories - click on 'Comment' and Share Your Story ~

I enjoy hearing stories of how someone got their nickname. The ones that stick. I myself have had many nicknames since I was a child from my father who was always calling me by other names than the one on my birth certificate.  In turn, as I became a father, I too had fun nicknames for my kids and grandkids.

I would love to hear about your nickname and the story behind it.  Please add your story to this page. Keeping in mind that this is a family friendly site!

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[Butternuts]

When I was an apprentice, I had a journeyman mentor that I spent more than half of my apprenticeship with whose simple term of endearment for me was "Let's go, Butternuts!" He continued to call me that even after I'd become a journeyman meterman.

[Bashful]

Not one to shy away from expressing my opinion or thoughts... My supervisor would refer to me as "Bashful" ... yep, one of the 7 dwarfs... Well, I was anything but, so he seemed to think the name fit. It didn't take long for others to catch on and such was my nickname while I worked on the docks...

[M. B. Paulsen]

I worked many years with a fellow journeyman Meter Tech that earned the nickname "Crash & Burn Fern" after having a particular bad day. It started with Art Fern driving through downtown when out of an alley came a woman in a car that had lost its brakes, yep, right into the side of Fern's utility van. Luckely there were no injuries. Barely getting the accident report taken care of and back to the next job and fern gets the call that an instrument -rated metering installation that he had wired the day before had just burnt up upon energizing it. It turned out that he had installed everything correctly, although a defective transformer had caused the wiring to short out and burn up. So from that day on he was CRASH AND BURNFERN. He is retired now and enjoying life in Texas.

[Ralphb72]

When I was in the Army, we always had and used nicknames for each other. Not so much any more. I had two nicknames in the Army. One was Dawg, not because of the "Hey Dawg" slang of today, (That had not come about yet), but because I used to "dawg out" the equipment operators who made stupid mistakes, or who refused to install ground rods at their sites etc. The other was Vern. If there is someone who's name I didn't know or could not remember, I always referred to that person as Vern. Somehow or other, because I was referring to people as Vern I got stuck with that as a nickname. I like the Dawg name better although as I grew up I learned that it was better to have a better relationship with all of the equipment operators then teach them what they are doing wrong instead of cussing them out about it.