Nicknames

The fellow who lives in the office next to me calls me "Montana", which is amusing because we all wear badges with our names and smiling faces on them, and I'm not a Montana native. I guess you just reach out to something that identifies the person and go with that. If we named people by where they've been, my office roomie would be called "U.S.C." and my office roomie who moved would be called "Minnesota".

Or maybe "Montana" has a wild, romantic sound to it that other place names don't. At least I'd like to think so.