Tootsie said:
we used to call my brother "helmet" (short for helmet head) because he had a giant head when we were kids. he finally grew into it. but we still call him that sometimes. and he's a priest. Father Helmet.

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love it! That is a classic, Tree.
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My given name is Lesley, but most people who have known me a long time call me Les. Anyone who knows me well calls me that. My brother and, ironically, my ex-husband sometimes, calls me Wezzie based on a family friend who couldn't pronounce my name when he was little.
Mr. Pod calls me Pea sometimes and a lot of the time Bud.
When I worked at the magazine, we used to do goofy stuff like make up nicknames for each other, so there my nickname was Crunch, which was a stretch based on connecting Nestle to Lesley, go figure. Hey, another girl there was nicknamed Wheels because her initials were M.A.G.