The Story of the Nicknames

Hello again.

As I mentioned before, I do go by many different nicknames to many different people, so I'll just tackle them one at a time.

CP (or CP III)
Simplified, CP is my initials but it was never used until I was playing ultimate frisbee one day after school.  While picking teams, two guys were collaborating on their next pick.  Their decision came as followed:

Vinny: "Alright, we'll take Colin."
Me: "WOO!"
Deuce: "Ay CP!"

He said it and it kinda stuck.  So the ultimate players started me calling that all the time and other people started to pick up on it.  Now CP III came from one guy, Aaron, that sat behind me in one of my classes.  This was early in 2012 and Robert Griffin III had just won the Heisman and Perry Jones III was in the national spotlight in college basketball.  So with RG3 and PJ3, Aaron slapped a 3 to the end of my nickname.  I liked it and still do.

Cone
The only person who calls me this is my buddy Audi (aw-dee, not ow-dee) but its one I don't mind.  He got to "Cone" because he knew it irritated me when people would write my name with two L's instead of when so he'd write it with three and then one day he just removed them all and tried to say my name and he came up with Cone and he just hasn't stopped calling me that.

Cal
This one's a good story.  Right after I graduated from high school I began working at Philmont Scout Ranch in the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico.  Philmont is the premier backpacking experience in the world and has 25-30,000 participants in any given summer.  Participants spend 10 days hiking through the backcountry, camping at both staffed and unstaffed camps.  Well I spent my summer working at one of those staffed camps.  Our camp was called "Clarks Fork."  Now, the theme to the camp is that its a group of ranch hands living and working on the ranch in the year 1950.  With it being a different time and place, we all had to create our own characters and backstories.  The character I created was "Calvin T. Simms," or Cal for short. I would answer to this name all the time for the summer and I'm fairly certain I'll still answer to it.

Doc
I got this one back in sophomore year of high school when I was basically playing match maker with my friends and their crushes and helping them get together.  For the most part, their relationships worked out really well and I got called Doctor Love by someone and Doctor Feelgood by another.  So Doc stuck around for a while.

Well, those are all the nicknames I still go by, so good night, good luck, and God bless Ronald Reagan and the fine folks at CZ.

-CP III