Name Game

The Name Game
But this post is important to me to stay where I can find it easy and for you guys to comment on…So I guess it is here now.
The name game used to be easy…
All you needed was a beer, and another person and you were set. The rules were why you were thinking of a famous name (or the name of the person in the group, SOCIAL!) you had to be drinking your beer. The next person in line has to think of a person whos first name starts with the First letter of the last name of the person you said.
So…If I said Ben Franklin the next person in line would have to say Flip Wilson…If there was a double Name or a single name such as Mickey Mouse, or Madonna, the order would change and you could have battles…All the while drinking your ass off and having a blast.
Today I sit at work looking at my business cards, thinking how the hell am I supposed to name a person I dont know….
I am John L III. My father is John Jr. We have a long line of Johns here not unlike in a rest stop bathroom…I am proud of my name and of my father. He is a good man, and I’d like to think that I am a good man too…Now I guess from what everyone says Men want to have a son so they can pass down their family name, and have a son named after them. I am not nearly that vain. I just want the kid to be happy, and healthy and loved. I am not of the super macho type when it comes to this stuff.
If we named our son John IV (I get to have a story to tell about having posion ivy and that if it was a girl I thought that was the perfect name, now I get it in intials, I think that is clever), he will be called Jack…My fathers family calls him, Johnny, and they call me little Johnny, which as I get older I cant stand. I find it to be very disrespectful, hey you is better in my book.
If we name him Jack- it is a derivation on the name John, but not the name of my father and grandfather. No one calls us any of us Jack…I am also worried about limiting my son. My father when I was a kid always talked of me working with him, when circumstances arose and I needed a job, I started to work with him. I wonder if that is because I am named after him…If I wasnt would I have done something else….Now dont get me wrong, I dont feel trapped by the name, but I dont want to trap anyone by the name.
If this all seems convuluted I am sorry, but these are the things that keep me up at night…
I think John IV-but we call him Jack might be confusing, but we also dont even have to tell people his name on the Birth Certificate right? We could just say this is Jack.. Melissa hates the name Johnny, which is strange because of my highschool friends and cousins call me that, and I cant bear the thought of having people call hiim little John or Johnny. I should ask my friend Jack what he thinks of his name…Although his name is John too.
Just a thought…Stay tuned for week 16…SOrry my pics are gone I guess they got lost in the update…