Since I can remember I’ve always had a nickname, or have been called by everything other than my first name, most common is my last name, growing up playing sports you get use to hearing last names being yelled from the dugouts and sidelines, even now most of the people I know or the guys on the road I work with, we use our last names when talking about or talking to someone, it’s just easier. But there’s also nicknames, most have to do like any nickname with a moment in time or place. I’ve had a few, but one nickname has stuck with me for a long time other than “red” has been yeti, and the funny thing is, it’s not a nickname that people call me when they’re talking to me, I’ve never heard anybody say “Hey Yeti, what’s up?” It’s always in the third person, like “don’t piss off the yeti”, that one is most common to new people or union hands, or “you’re looking for the red yeti”, and “there’s so much bus food because we have the yeti”. The last one I think is more of fat joke, but it’s kinda funny that the nickname has stuck around.
Originally a lighting guy (Danny Z.) was the first to call me the name, what seems like a long time ago, and it’s just kinda stuck with me. Some how, I’m not the type to go around and introduce myself as a the nickname, like some people I know.
I love the pictures that are above, my buddy Harry took these and sent them to me. I just need to figure out how to get these and hang them in my office.
