Do you give identifying nicknames to people in your neighbourhood?

Question

For example, where I live there is:

Mr Nipples - an overweight man who goes walking every night without a shirt on, even in the middle of winter when it is is freezing

The Burners - a family who always has a fire lit, even on the hottest summer day

Draco - the teenage boy next door who looks exactly like Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies

Garage Boy - a young guy on the other side who spends all day every day in his aunt's garage, listening to rap and death metal

The Jailbait Jogger - a pretty 13 year old girl with DD breasts who goes jogging every afternoon in an unsupportive bra, and every guy on the block from 8 to 80 suddenly needs to do something on their front lawn

Am I the only person who does this?

Answer 1

Actually we do, but we nickname animals as well as people.

Stray dog w/puppies- Momma Dog
Dog with bald spots on butt- Baboon Butt
Mean dog next door- Big Head
Stray Black Dog - Blackie (Now Maggie Mae and not a stray anymore - she lives with us)

Lady Next Door's Son - Slave Boy (boy would be RICH if he was paid)
Big Don (self explained)
Philandering Bob (yep you guessed it)
Goat people (has goats on property)
Mean Looking Drunk Lady (pretty well says it all)
The Rat Its (twins next door)
Bones (VERY thin)
Miss Know-it-All ( Yep she is one of those!)

This was a very good question, and lots of fun to answer!! Thanks.

Answer 2

Heck yeah! The next door neighbors are "Hugh and Bunny" because we got their Playboy in the mail a few weeks ago. The people down the street are the "Patel's" because they're Indian and the only people we know who are Indian have the last name of Patel--(funny story, because after months of calling them that, that actually IS there last name). The couple down the street are "Barbie & Ken" because she is overly tan and walks around the neighbor hood about 7 times a day. The guy on the other side of the neighborhood is "Wally Boy" because he is the manager of the Walmart here. The old lady next door is "The Etch" because Etch is the first part of her last name...and it's a really long last name so we just call her that instead.

Answer 3

Yes I do, but only one of my neighbor has a nickname. His nickname is "whatchayadoin"?

Uhhhh...difficult question! I'm standing on a ladder painting the garage door so I can lean against it and mess up my clothes.

Whatchadoin? I'm putting together a swingset for my dog.

Whatchadoin? I'm lighting the grill so I can lay on it and you can have me for dinner.

Whatchadoin? I'm running around with the lawnmower because I'm bored to death.

No, I don't really answer that way, but I want to!

Answer 4

LMAO! No, you are not the only one! My husband needs to read this! He thinks my sister and I (who are neighbors) are nucking futs!! We have a name for everyone on the street! My 9 year old son actually thought the neighbors, that live between my sister and I, name was "Leathercock". It is Leatherwood, but these ppl are insane and quite the a holes!! That is just one neighbor, to name a few.

Answer 5

No you are not the only one.... I am neighbors with LaLa.. a very spaced out women that I swear hears circus music in her head.

Also down the street lives Johnny Knoxville... A kid that is always lighting m80's and firecrackers off in his garage

Answer 6

I do it also...The Bundys...The married couple who are still raising their kids @ 33 and 37 years old. The cat lady...Has about 20 cats..The tatoo man....The guy who has alot of tatoos.. The biker... a guy in our neighborhood who rides a Harley...Grandma Vicky....she is raising her grandkids.....Grumpy...A cranky guy on the corner....Speed...a gal drives a corvette.....Rich neighbor...drives a beautiful motorhome....crazy lady..alittle touched and hollers at the neighbors and her imaginery friend... and there is more but I am tired....So see you are not the only one to nickname your neighbors...I wonder what they call me? ha ha I will have to find out...

Answer 7

Sounds like a colorful neighborhood. Do they have needs you can address? Thinking carefully, my neighborhood must be relatively sedate. We have no one so striking as the people you mention. I certainly see unusual "types" in places like Wal-Mart, but I've never thought to give them nicknames or group them into such narrow types.

Thanks for sharing. I think I like your neighborhood.

Answer 8

I do the same thing.

Mr Beaver-An older man, who is always, I mean, always working around the house...mowing the lawn, changing windows, fixing the steps etc...

I think that this is how the origin of family names started.
Liz

Answer 9

oh no, you are not alone!
toothless mcgee - a lady with one tooth in the front, the rest, all gone
the clampets - my neighbors
sethapenis - a fat gross man who likes little boys way too much if get what i mean
big bertha - an extremely over weight family member whose name is nowhere near bertha
broco-o-o-o-ol-l-l-l-li-i-ie-e the mexican immigrant brocolli pickers
chin chins - the fat old chinese women driving the taxis
mic mac paddiwacs - the mic mac indians and the reservation they live on

oh yea, and my husband wants me to ask if you by any chance have a picture of the jailbate jogger. he claims he just wants to judge weather the name is fair or not, geeze.......

Answer 10

Yes, common nature when people/folks earn a title..I have in my neighborhood:

O'Crazy Man...shoots guns, walks in people's house's w/o being asked.(he introduced himself to me as "I'm the ole crazy man that lives in the woods.")

Then there's Pinocchio--the absolute liar & yeah he has a big nose.

The fat lady singer

Church lady

Chicken man

BIlly Bad ***

Wild Woman

Re-run

Drugstore man