I teach a sport in the evenings and we've told the kids (and its somewhat true) that nicknames are common among the players (becuase in the sport were consistently identified by our near inpronounceable last names). So whenever we get a number of kids with the same names or hard to remember names, out come the nicknames. It becomes so prevalent that no one in the class really knows what the kids real names are. In fact, we held a tournament for several of the classes last week and one of my older kids came in and signed up with his name and I was wondering who the heck it was. So then I looked up and oh, of course, that's Bono.Later in the tournament someone said, "Hey, do you know Gareth?" To which I responded, "Yes of course, but his name's Bud."
DH is a BJ. It's a nickname his family stupidly saddled him with. He used to hate it, got teased mercilessly in school and tried to change his nickname. He found out that was basically impossible. By the time he got to college he'd accepted it and embraced it and ultimately it's made him a stronger person.
Besides, at least that kid knows how everyone's going to tease him. Meanwhile, you have kids like me with no obvious jokes in our names and which result in great tween creativity. My maiden named rhymed with a portion of the male anatomy.
Is B.J. his legal name though? This is the kid's legal name, not short for Brian James or anything, just B.J.
I'm sorry but isn't spelling heaven backwards somewhat blasphemous?
