geez I have so may names, my name is Katherine most people call me Kathy, lots of people call me Kat, and some call me Kitty, now i just answer to HEY YOU!!!! actually since my ex hubby i have grown to hate Kathy lol. would rather be called Katherine or Kat
Well, I got a hair cut in the fourth grade and the women cut it SUPER SHORT, so My dads friend started to call me FRED, As I got older I was just Dee for the longest time even though Thats only the first letter of my real name. So now I am Dee to everyone...
LonelyInBC31OPBattle Creek, Michigan USA2,760 posts
Its kinda funny...once some mail came for me addressed to Michael instead of Michelle. So, Mike was my family's nickname for me so I canged all theirs too...
Petra to Peter James to Jenny Ron to Rhonda
My mom's name is Helga, I started calling her Harold and my dad James was Jenny Jo...
It was funny when someone called and asked for someone, we would call them by their nickname to the phone...and the caller would always wonder what was up with that.....It made for a really funny childhood joke. Especially when friends were around!
Similar transition - at about thirty years old, we had two other Bob's in the office, and in a cube environment, there was some confusion. So I asked to be called Robert. I moved into a new apartment complex at about the same time back in Michigan, so that's how I introduced myself. Of course, no one here in Cali knew it any other way, so the transition was complete.
I have two older sisters and we are all within 3 years of each other in age. When we were teens, my sisters, and then my parents, started calling me Rena. It used to confuse the heck out of our boyfriends, they would think there was a Rena and a Reva... They still call me that from time to time.
I was called alot of things when I was younger oh heck some still call me by a different name (not good ones either) but alot of my family members just called me Miss Lynn
i was called ellie - spidey (long legs) and occassionally ellie mae ( i cannot ..repeat.. cannot get away with daisy dukes... masa on the thighs) -- i was also adopted at a later age so my name changed legally... that is when it became plain old ell...
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