I've always had a nickname at one time or another. Usually, they become nicknames because you don't like them...then your friends never let it go. The last one I had, I chose to embrace and I met tens of thousands of people over the years who only ever knew me by that nickname.
My old friends still refer to me that way. Of course they giddily put a "Sir" or an "Officer" before it now...lol
In fact, the one name I almost never went by was Chris. I felt it was too common and boring...no offence fyrfytr. There always seems to be another Chris is any group which explains the nicknames.
Chris
