A rose by any other name...

Growing up we all have nicknames. Some are sarcastic.  Like calling a large fella - "Tiny."  Some are more obvious like calling someone who wears glasses - "Specs."   Since my name is Tiffany, people jump directly to Tiff.  Where that might be gramatically correct - it's not very original.  My favorites are very similar to each other.  T-Rowe and T-Rom.  Or there's the ever popular - Romeo.

But it's not that kind of nickname I'm talking about here.  No.  Not at all.  I wanna talk about nicknames we give the opposite sex.   Sure when we're happily in a relationship the names are things like snookums, baby, pooh bear or sugar.  Most are only used in the privacy of the bedroom.  However.  One of my besties is from the south and called her boyfriend (at the time, now hubby) "Sugar".  All the time.  In every situation.  Sooooo, of course we all picked up on it and he became known to us all as Sugar.  It still makes me smile just thinking of the New Years Eve where that became his official name.

But still, that's not quite what this is about either.  It's more like the names we give the boys we are either not with any more or never really were to begin with.  (But boy did we want to.)

My friends and I have become quite skilled at this.  People can also tell how we feel about a certain person by whether he has a "name" yet.     Now I will say this.  There are a few.  A rare few. That are called by their actual legal name.    But others get names like, (and these were not all mine): The Evil Doofenshmirtz - my fave, the same guy also had Super Tool, Jailbird Jimmy, Pizza Joe,  Grey Goose, The Grave Robber,  EKG, Skippy, Hot but Annoying... HBA, Cowboy, JD, High Five, Blossom Bliss, Whitey Tighties and so many more.  It's like we have our own messed up version of the Village People.    Sometimes it's just guys we meet and not ever date that get names too - The Un-funny commedian.  This one was a random guy I met YEARS ago and it's funny because it's true. 

Why do we do this you might ask?  The reason is two fold.  One, it helps us to talk about the guys in code.  And, two, this is the only way we can remember who they are. :)