Monday, November 19, 2007

In high school, I had a small group of friends that would hang out all the time. There were around 5 or 6 of us, and every Friday we would go to someone's house and play video games or watch movies. I was usually the only girl there (I had to put up with a lot) and a lot of the time, I was "left out" of jokes. I'm not sure if they just weren't as comfortable with me as they were with each other, or if they thought they'd insult me with their dirty jokes and boy talk. One of the things they did was assign each other nicknames. One kid was "Maverick" and another was "Boomer". I think these names are from movies, but I really have no idea. Oh well, maybe that's why I was left out of jokes (haha). One kid was "Skater" for obvious reasons, and another was Bleach. It got to the point where we hung out for so long and called each other those nicknames, that I almost forgot their actual names. My sister would ask about Josh (Bleach), and I would just look at her and say "Who?" I would even hear Boomer's girlfriend call him Boomer. I, however, was never assigned a nickname. I was always just "Lisa." I wasn't too upset because I was just worried that they would assign me a nickname that secretly made fun of me or because I had done something stupid. My mom calls me "LiLi" but I'm not really too sure I want other people to call me that...

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