The name games: Readers share unusual nickname stories
“They were calling him ‘Don T,’” wrote Vicki, of Reston.This puzzled Vicki, so she asked for an explanation. David told her an embarrassing tale. One evening, he’d been out driving with his friends and looking for a parking spot at a crowded venue.
“He spotted an empty space close to a dumpster and drove toward it,” Vicki wrote. “When they got close, David saw a dilapidated sign in the car’s headlights and said ‘I can’t park here … I don’t know who he is, but it’s reserved for ‘Don T.’”Wrote Vicki: “His friends exploded in laughter and ‘Don T’ became his nickname.”kept at the Old Dominion Boat Club in Alexandria was damaged in a storm when a larger boat hit it. He decided to do the repairs himself.
“Some other members were sitting at the bar watching NASCAR,” he wrote. “One of them looked at me and loudly said, ‘Hey, there’s that duct tape guy’ as a joke.”The District’sraised a point: “It’s an anecdotal observation, but the nickname phenomenon seems to be primarily practiced by males — not necessarily mature ones. Must be like our affinity for the ‘Three Stooges.’”
Yes, and as with the Stooges, there can be a certain cruelty in nicknames. When he was a young teenager, 60 or so years ago,delivered newspapers. His prowess at signing customers up for subscriptions earned Phil a trip to an Orioles game with other paperboys.“As I got on the truck I stumbled and fell, butt up,” Phil wrote. “The manager looked at me on the floor, butt up, and called out for all to hear, ‘Look at those buns! Hey Bunsy.’”“And at 74, we’re all old,” he wrote.
“Later, after the site had been raided and sued for various civil and criminal violations, a House subcommittee was investigating DOE and its contractors,” DJ wrote. “At one point, zealous congressional staff strongly demanded to know the identity of the person whose ‘code name’ was ‘Purple.’”Others included Dr. D, Dr. Detroit, The Shadow and El Jefe.We’re at the midpoint of this year’s Washington Post Helping Hand campaign. If you’ve been meaning to give, now’s the time to do it.
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