Nicknames (Fun Poem 146)

Everyone gets a nickname at some point in their life and it will last for years. Unfortunately I’ve had more than one. The first came at school when I lived in Canada and my friends called me Boner. I am not even going to explain where that came from. My next came at school when I moved to England and I was called Verdi. It was derived from my middle name Verdun. When I left school and went to work and I got collared with Sticky Toes after I accidently spilt glue on a floor and got stuck in it At my next job I ended up with another called Ratbag after my scruffy appearance while I was there. However my next nickname was garnished a few years and jobs later and has come back to haunt me from time to time and that was Fluff. It got that bad no one knew me by my real name and it even found its way onto my wage slips. Finally when I thought I left it well behind my wife told my late brother and he started calling me Fluffy. It was a little later I collared my latest and final one I hope; now I’m known as Dodgy Dave. With that one I have become a tad notorious having had a whole series of poems written about my antics called Dodgy Dave Tales taken from true incidents in my life. If you get a nickname don’t get embarrassed, just live with it until the next one comes to call. Just look what it did for me. It made me rather infamous. Lol! 6 July 2013