The Nickname... "Poptart"
So it came up in North Haven yesterday that I used to go by Poptart in my life. I was gonna explain there, but then I got yelled at for not being asleep. So now i'm here!
There's really not much of a story here:
When I was in middle school I loved (and honestly still love) Pop Tarts. I would eat one every day at lunch, it was a necessity for me (mostly for not relevant ed reasons).
Another key piece of information that fits in here is how my middle school did recess. We still had recess, however we did it a bit weird. If the weather was not good, we would be in the gym. If the weather was great and the turf was dry, we would be let loose on the football field.
However! If the weather was fine but the ground was wet, we would be let loose on the parking loop in front of the school. We were expected to walk for our recess, making a collective trip around the loop until we were told to go back inside.
So we got that? good. Now, the weather on one day was good but the turf was sopping wet from a rainstorm that morning. Even the asphalt was still we when we went outside. I also had not been able to finish my pop tart from lunch before going out to the parking loop.
I was trying so hard to shove this open packet of Hot Fudge Pop Tart into my teeny tiny women's skinny jeans front pocket and it Was Not Working.
Now another thing you need to know is that there was a very strict "No Food In Recess" rule. Like, it was heavily monitored.
So next thing I know, the Vice Principal was yelling out "Hey Poptart, no food out here!"
'Why would he call that out?' you ask and gee, I would like to know the same thing. Mr. Presioso knew me, I was the teacher's pet. Everyone knew my name and how to pronounce it, I made sure of it. And yet
Then from there my friends just picked up the nickname to tease me and it stuck. It was easier to go by that than re-introduce people to my very Irish name when I went to a STEM+M school for high school with all new students and teachers. So, for 8 years of my life, I went by Poptart for everything.
College was the first time people actually put an effort into learning my name instead of defaulting to Poptart. Though I do still catch myself answering to it even though it's been like 5 years since then.
But yeah, that's the nickname story!
(I did have a nickname for my nickname, however there is only one (1) person in my life that is allowed to call me it so I will not mention it here)
