In a small town, similar to an episode of cheers, everybody knows your name. Everyone knows what you do for a living and who your kids are and they refer to where you live by who has lived there before you not by the address. But it is official my kids have earned little monikers from the locals.
My son is "the reader". He walks to school in the mornings always book in hand and as his name would suggest, he is reading it. He walks and reads. Sometimes not always successfully, but none the less he is "the reader". He takes his book to restaurants and on the ferry and sometimes he even gets yelled at by a teacher for reading in class when he is suppose to be listening to something else.
My daughter is the "sweet girl". She earned her name just the other day. She was waiting in line for her breakfast at the cafe and an older gentleman was waiting behind her. When she got to the counter and it was her turn to order, she noticed the man behind her and allowed him to go in front of her. This in and of itself was not a huge feat but to that man it made all the difference. After ordering he went around telling everyone in the cafe about the "sweet little girl"and went out of his way to tell me how lucky I am to have her.
The next day at the same cafe I ran into a parent of one of my students and she looked at me said, " oh I know who your kids are, your kids are the reader and the sweet little girl". I smiled and shook my head and said, "Yes, yes they are".
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