I think it is time we confessed to some of those nicknames kids gave us when we were in school. You know, the ones that you thought you would never lose . They were embarrassing at first but after a year or so they became common place.
I had three. When I was in the secound grade I miss spelled my name at the top of my paper and somehow , (Don't ask me why) everyone thought it looked like " Butter"
So I was Butter till about the sixth grade then being a tall skinny kid somebody saw me in shorts which was a hardly ever , and started calling me " Birdlegs"
So it was Birdlegs until I was a sophmore in highschool when on a dare I entered in the first high school rodeo at our school . I entered the bronc riding , thinking that it seemed the safest. I was not about to get on a bull on purpose and I could not see my skinny self bulldogging a big ole steer. So when I got up on the chute ready to lower myself down on him the blasted buckskin decided to leap up and throw his front legs over in the next chute. My helper yelled at me to get off but he wasted those words because I was already off. Then the chute foreman told me I had to hurry so this time he wanted me to leap down on his back grab that thing they call a cirsingle and hold on because he was going to let the horse out then .
Well, just as I landed on top of him and grabbed that handle the horse decided to throw his head back . Now my head going forward and his head being thrown back was a mismatch of hard heads. They opened the gate and he knocked me completely off his backand down in the chute out cold. The horse of coarse took off. They said I was lucky I didn't get kicked in the head to boot. LOL.
Anyway after that I had a nickname that lasted me the rest of my days in high school---- BRONCO !!
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