When I was growing up, my parents didn't call me "Renee". For a little while my dad referred to me as "Chaka" from Land of the Lost, but the whole time I was in grade school, everyone called me "Shelley". My parents came up with this variant when I was a baby and I had no idea my real name was "Renee" for years. It was very confusing, but it was even more irritating having to explain this over and over to new friends at school, because of course I was "Shelley" at church. Dumb, right?
dad, "Shelley, come here"
new friend, "Who's Shelley?"
me, "I am"
new friend, "What?"
me, "It's a nick name for Michelle, my middle name."
new friend, "That's weird"
me, "I know"
new friend, "You don't look like a Shelley"
me, "ok"
new friend, "Seriously, that's weird"
me, "Can we talk about something else?"
I'm only writing this because my blog is supposed to be a pseudo journal. I thought my kids would get a kick out of this, especially considering the ridiculous nick names I've given them, GG, Wencer, etc..
I'm just sayin'.
8 comments:
Sounds like my kids. If they don't know how to say a name of a friend they just ask if they can just call them something else. The weird thing is the other kids usually say its okay. My kids then forever call the friend by the new given name. So strange.
That is kind of strange/funny. My mom hated nick names but we all, ok everyone but me, had one anyway. I can see where introducing yourself as Renee then having your parents call you Shelly would be a wee bit confusing! But it does make for a good memory.
we live by nicknames
just saying....
I love nicknames. Its fun when your friends pick up on them.
I was Boom Boom for years. Ack!
from now on i shall only refer to you as shelly. or the SHELL. or shellster.
i love it.
Candy was a fun nickname to have until about high school. Then everyone just asked if I was a stripper. I think even mom did.
My nickname was the miserable mouth--sad huh? True, but sad.
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