Wednesday

I was thinking about writing a post about going out to see the Pothead family this weekend, then I wrote the words "Pothead family" and decided that would be a better topic. In college, people get nicknames. Sometimes they go away, sometimes they stick. Generally, the ones you want to go away stick. Just ask Pothead and Snot.

When Pothead's wife agreed to marry him, I wonder if she considered the fact that she could someday be referred to in a blog as "Pothead's wife" or that their family could be "the Pothead family." I'm guessing not.

Snot's nickname is slowly wearing off, but it is still hard to say whether it will be gone before he and his wife have a kid.

Some nicknames are pretty tame. Pappy will probably always have his, but there isn't anything inherently weird about that. Absent the whole perjury and going to prison thing, Lewis "Scooter" Libby did fine in politics with a nickname.

Every once in awhile, nicknames even work out. Like for Captain. What started out as "Captain Idiot" when he forgot the fucking trolling motor turned into an ok nickname. Probably won't help him pick up girls like Meat's or Dirk's nicknames will, but what the hell.