The headmaster was once a schoolboy. The teacher was once a student. Your father was once a teenager, then a youth.

I ran into my father and his peers sitting out together, sharing banters and calling each other names from the past. It's a welcome sight to see these senior citizens catch hearty moments and even throw obscene jokes at each other. Their jokes were so obscene you would have to put it in "sexuality section" if it were to be on nairaland. Life, the say, is in stages.

As I sat with them, one thing struck me. These "old boys" used to have wicked nicknames. The other one was called "baby but why", and the story behind the name is even more hilarious, something to do with a heartbreak in school. Another was called "Crackers".A bearded old man in his sixties responded to the name "buran tashi", and I was like "what the ****!". "Suspense" was the nickname of another sixty something year old man, and as the night grew older, I began to see my father a different man. His own nickname even got me rolling. "High-sky" was his nickname in school. apparently, he got high once n said stuff about the sky. Another of my father's mate was called "Agbegilodo" cos of d shape of his head. These guys had a life afterall! They are not the "boring old men" I used to think they were. It's just that time had pulled a fast one on them.

All my life, my father and mother have tried to be role models so we can have reasonable examples to copy from. They moulded us with love and care and guarded their conducts so much you would think they were perfect.This one night out with my old man and his peers helped to change the way I look at my parents, in a good way. Back in school I was almost saintly, thinking that nicknames were for bad boys. But alas, respectable and responsible old men in their sixties once had nicknames in their twenties, and they still turned out right by societal standards.

My father once had a nickname as a youth. I have a nickname too! And my child would get to know d name soon enough, and I would give him one if he doesn't chose for himself.

Source: my brain

Yeah my dad had one. His friends still call him BULLET.

acenazt:
Yeah my dad had one. His friends still call him BULLET.

Did u ask for d story behind d name?

Chai, bullet!

Nice one... Not sure if m dad had a nickname but I knw he had an awesome time growing up
He was a "BAD BOY" no party was successful without his crew...
Had chains of gfs
He was also vry hard-working(still is)
I just can't describe his youth age... But he did rock tinx but now
He frowns @ almost everytin... Nd I sometimes wonder "dude u had a nice time lemme enjoy myn"
But I know he loves his children nd he doesn't want us to make d mistakes he made...
I LOVE U DAD

lordprosh:
Nice one... Not sure if m dad had a nickname but I knw he had an awesome time growing up
He was a "BAD BOY" no party was successful without his crew...
Had chains of gfs
He was also vry hard-working(still is)
I just can't describe his youth age... But he did rock tinx but now
He frowns @ almost everytin... Nd I sometimes wonder "dude u had a nice time lemme enjoy myn"
But I know he loves his children nd he doesn't want us to make d mistakes he made...
I LOVE U DAD

He lived his life. He can't live urs.

Am glad u realise that his actions r out of love and the desire to protect u. But u need to live ur life n make ur own mistakes too. He can only guide and advise u last last...

zomoears:


Did u ask for d story behind d name?

Chai, bullet!

i love that name and if i were you, i would rush to my father to teach me how to carry on the bullet legacy man lol

Tycyborg:

i love that name and if i were you, i would rush to my father to teach me how to carry on the bullet legacy man lol

Lol

zomoears:


He lived his life. He can't live urs.

Am glad u realise that his actions r out of love and the desire to protect u. But u need to live ur life n make ur own mistakes too. He can only guide and advise u last last...

Well said but he had fun with plenty of mistakes
He paid some heavy price which will be too costly in this generation
Tho av drawn the line to how much he can care but am living a very simple life.. NO SMOKING, DRINKING, WOMANIZING, CLUBING nd so on...and I tell yhu am enjoying my life...

My dad used to be an heavy drinker he tot he got away but years into hus new life he had diabetics we almost lost him but thank GOD for JESUS and my SUPER MUM his alive and living fine today... Sometime I look @ him and realize he probably said "u lived urs lemme live mine too" to his dad too

zomoears:


Did u ask for d story behind d name?

Chai, bullet!

my brother him yarn me say the tori no get subtitle for my ears.

My dad was and is still called piccolo, the name came as a result of his voice, he is also called Finisher by some of his peers as a result of his football skills/goal scoring abilities, sometimes he says "if only football paid in our time, all you get then was oranges for playing well"

freecocoa:
My dad was and is still called piccolo, the name came as a result of his voice, he is also called Finisher by some of his peers as a result of his football skills/goal scoring abilities, sometimes he says "if only football paid in our time, all you get then was oranges for playing well"

When I saw finisher, my mind strayed for a while...like, bad guy things, until I got to the football part...lol.

But have u ever imagined what he was like with the ladies of his time?