At my gym last month, I suddenly needed to make a call, so I ran outside to my car and took care of it. When I came back in, the diminutive fella who works the front desk asked me for my ID and tried to exert his authority with a slight scolding.
Since then, I’ve been giving my improv skills a workout, by greeting him with a new nickname every morning. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Squirt
- Junior
- Tattoo
- Webster
- Bill Shoemaker
- Kucinich
- Scrappy Doo
- Eddie Gaedel
- Finster
- Spud
- DeVito