Nickname Meme

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1. Name?
- My name is Ezra Morris (no I won't share my real name you dinguses )

2. Do you want to change your name?
- I actually do want to change my name, as I've never really liked my real name. Sad face.

3. Nicknames?
- My dad has always called me "pook" or "pooky" and nobody knows why, even he admits he just started saying it and it stuck. He did it more often when I was a kiddo, but to this day he still says it. Like when I call my mom, I'll hear him ask from another room "WHO YOU TALKIN TO? IS IT POOKY?" and I hang my head in happy embarrassment.

- My nickname in school was "mexican", because I was the token ethnic friend in my group. I never took offense to it, despite hearing racial slurs from my predominantly white school.

- When I was in high school, I worked at a grocery store with all of my friends and eventually my nickname transitioned from "mexican" to "Don Juan Carlos" or "Carlos" for short. I also had a name tag with "Carlos" on it as people thought it was my real name. I also added a Strong Bad sticker to my name tag (Homestar Runner was huge when I was a Junior in HS) and people started calling me Strong Bad. One of my co-workers always called me Stwong Bayad, alá Homestar's speech impediment.

- College was my height of nicknames. Stemming from the fact that I don't look hispanic, but I also don't look white, my classmates played constant guessing games regarding my ethnicity. Every cornball ethnic nickname was put on the table and some names only stuck around for a few days. A few people argued that I was actually Hawaiian and my parents wouldn't tell me I was adopted, so the big name that stuck around was IZ, the famous Hawaiian singer. And yes, in college I started getting chubby, so the name was appropriate!

- After college, I worked at several different jobs and earned a few more new nicknames. Working at Gamestop, the nickname that stuck with me was Panda. One day a few of us were joking about our "spirit animals", when a co-worker said I had to be a panda and my boss flipped out laughing, saying he could no longer look at me and NOT see a panda. New name tags were made and it stuck. My girlfriend at the time also worked with me and she also called me "pancake", so I was made fun of for that pet name.

- I worked night shift at an adult book store for a few years and (it's a long story) a few drunk rednecks threatened to beat me and kept calling me "nacho". I told the Gamestop crew about it the next day and they started referring to me as "nacho", despite the awful back story, lol.

- Working at a t-shirt shop as a graphic designer, the printshop team called me "baker" because I would occasionally bake cookies and things for them. It was my first real graphic designer job and I wanted to get along with everyone, so I kinda kissed their asses by baking random treats for them. I actually really liked the name because I never thought I was a good cook or baker before working there.

- Transitioning to my current job, I've had a few nicknames here, but nothing has really stuck like "buttons". A few years ago, I wore a shirt that had some extra buttons on the sleeve to roll them up and button them, and for some reason the guys were hung up on it needed some Infliction graphics and I could be on The Jersey Shore (the guys I work with are very white collar, and the shirt was nowhere near that douchey). The name stuck and I played out this goofy Jersey Shore douche bag persona whenever they call me buttons, where I joke about hitting the gym and bangin' broads all day. The nickname helped me develop my Jersey accent.