J.R.
Not my initials, indeed there is neither a J nor an R in either my first or last name. My middle name has an r as the 5th letter, but thats really beyond the point. No, J.R. grew out of Junior, which I got in my first year of High School. Not that my dad and I have the same first name, or that we look especially alike. At the time, my dad was a complete pisstank. I lived about 4 blocks from High School, so of course I walked there and back, and my friends had no idea of my dad's problems. So imagine my surprise when one day after school, my dad shows up, drunk as fuck, dirty, unshaved, and nude but for the dirtiest rattiest bathrobe in history in his little shitbox rusted-out car to 'give me a lift home'. In front of all my friends. Someone the next day was the first to call me Junior, and promptly got hit very hard in the face for it. Well, that cemented it, the name stuck all through High School, and most of Uni. I still get called Junior, or J.R., and I still occasionally hit people for it. Not everyone, there's a short list of people who've known me as nothing else, and they get away with it. But its a short list, and you're not on it.
(Savitar, Sun 21 May 2006, 18:50, Reply)