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Never hear the end of it (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] PhobosAnomaly 58 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A colleague of mine has been known as "wump" for years. I didn't think anything of it until someone asked why that was his nickname, and one of the old boys said:

"that was the sound he made when he got run over about twenty years ago"

nice

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Similar story, I had a coworker who went by Skippy and it turns out people call him that because he still walks with a limp from a car crash that killed his brother.

I started calling him Shaun

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 17 points 8 months ago

Is Shawn his name or the noise he made in the car crash?

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I got the nickname "Ralph" because I was wicked hungover at work during covid shutdown and threw up.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

I was run over 45 years agoo. No fun name but we do get to tease the driver at gatherings to this day.