Nicknames. How did you get yours?

[Fry14MN]

People call me Fry.

My real name is Sterling so first it was Short Fry, I'm pretty dang short, then Ster-fry now its just Fry. I get so many questions about where my name came from that I just introduce myself as Fry and save the story. Plus, for some reason people think I'm a guy before they meet me in person. Apparently Sterling is a boys name? Just yesterday I had a new instructor calling attendance and when he came to my name he looked right at the boy next to me...I said "present" (insert instructors shocked look)

So....I'm Fry

 

[TransportJockey]

We have three Nathans at my service. Everyone mispronounces my last name to zeeeko... so they've shortened it to Zeke

 

[CALEMT]

I somehow acquired the nickname: McLovin as a seasonal firefighter in 2014. No idea how I got it, but it stuck. I had Engineers, Captains, Battalion Chiefs, hell even a Division Chief knew about firefighter McLovin. Anyone and everyone I worked with never called me by my name. One guy even thought McLovin was my real last name.

 

[DesertMedic66]

I somehow acquired the nickname: McLovin as a seasonal firefighter in 2014. No idea how I got it, but it stuck. I had Engineers, Captains, Battalion Chiefs, hell even a Division Chief knew about firefighter McLovin. Anyone and everyone I worked with never called me by my name. One guy even thought McLovin was my real last name.

Thank you for that information

 

[STXmedic]

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Pretty self-explanatory how I got it.

 

[CALEMT]

Thank you for that information

Makes me wonder what I'm going to see next time I walk into the main.

 

[Tigger]

I got my nickname when I was a student trainer working for a hockey program. Somehow I got the nickname Nasty. One of the paramedics who got me hired at my current place also covered hockey games, he made sure that spread through several agencies...

 

[CALEMT]

I got my nickname when I was a student trainer working for a hockey program. Somehow I got the nickname Nasty. One of the paramedics who got me hired at my current place also covered hockey games, he made sure that spread through several agencies...

I'm curious as to how you acquired such a nickname.

 

[gotbeerz001]

I somehow acquired the nickname: McLovin as a seasonal firefighter in 2014. No idea how I got it, but it stuck. I had Engineers, Captains, Battalion Chiefs, hell even a Division Chief knew about firefighter McLovin. Anyone and everyone I worked with never called me by my name. One guy even thought McLovin was my real last name.

Every Cal Fire Unit has a McLovin... You should find the other 20 and take a group photo.

I was called Flanders for awhile... Early on I was asked to do something and I think I said "Right-O" and it was over for me. People also thought Flanders

was my actual last name.

 

[CALEMT]

Every Cal Fire Unit has a McLovin... You should find the other 20 and take a group photo.

That'd be pretty epic haha.

 

[Tigger]

I'm curious as to how you acquired such a nickname.

Alcohol was involved, and that is all I know. Had a fun/rough/poor choices college weekend and walked into practice the following Monday and that was that. Was told "the story is not important." I disagree.

 

[Chewy20]

No one could pronounce my last name freshman year of high school hockey, coach started calling me chewy. Once I moved to Texas and went to the academy they also randomly started calling me Chewy the first week. For the past 10 years, no one has called me by my first name, except for my family.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I did commercial voice over and was asked in my interview if I was in anything they may have heard. I replied, "well, I did a McRib commercial..."

Damn. McRib. McMedic. mr voice.

I had all of those for a while.

 

[Traumawaffles]

Probably because I have a distinct love for waffles. Even though I prefer French toast.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I like most waffles.

Most.

 

[Traumawaffles]

Luckily, blue waffles not only disgust me, they make me go, "Oh, well that's nice."

Just call me Frenchy

 

[Carlos Danger]

Big Al.

My name is Allan. I've always had a pretty big, solid build.

There you go. It follows me everywhere.

 

[EMT2015]

I have multiply nicknames. I get called ShamWow, Shamtastic, Shimmy Sham, Meka, and Mimi. When I was first getting adopted I didn't like my name, so I would always say: My name not Shameka, it's Mimi (insert heavy ebonics due to being raised in a house where my fosterdad was from Texas and I was living in San Francisco). So, now Mimi is one of my nicknames. The other ones I've gotten from my years of working in the coffee shop because it was easier for everyone to shorten my name because during a rush, we need to be able to communicate fast, so Shameka took up a lot of time.

 

[LocNar]

During my paramedic internship the names Woody and Heart-throb were bestowed upon me by one of my preceptors. The name came about after an encounter with a patient who was very, very... visibly excited to me. You can pretty much surmise the meaning of the names on your own terms.

 

[redundantbassist]

Pookie, or pooks for short.

Don't ask about the story.