Fort Awesome

To introduce this story I should start by saying that I have a new job! It’s pretty ace, in fact I’m there right now. I do Web Support for e-lab and although that my sound boring, it’s not. The people are brilliant and I work about 20 feet from Mannion, which is nice. Anyway, the office is a bit confusing because of the 2 Mat(t)s, and sometimes there’s a Pat as well. I’m wondering how long is best to wait before I should mention the idea of calling me ‘Jeff’, and I thought I should maybe explain the backstory to the name for those who don’t know.

What’s that you say? Jeff’s not my real name? No in fact it’s not. It’s not even my middle name. It all begins some time ago when some of my friends from Coventry Adam, John, Dan, Phil, Gaz who shall remain nameless kept getting my name confused with that of another friend, Mike. Now I’ve known these people for years which made it all the more annoying. Their excuse was that Matt and Mike were really similar so it was understandable. Not by me it wasn’t! So I decided to make it easy for them and just blurted out “Well just call me Jeff! That’s not like Mike!”

Why Jeff? Well I’d always liked the name and it always reminds me of a scene from Wayne’s World 2 that some of you may remember. It’s worth noting that it’s Jeff. Not Geoff, or Geoffery, or, god forbid, Jeffery.

Anyway. It didn’t catch on. No-one called me Jeff and I pretty much forgot about it. Then came uni and the other Mat. I tried suggesting the Jeff idea again, in what has to be described as a much more confusing situation than ‘Matt and Mike’, and for some reason it stuck. Now everyone in Leam calls me Jeff and I’m sweet with it. I’ve even stopped responding to Matt at home.

So there you go. Now you know the story. I keep trying to convert my Coventry friends but it seems to have less of an effect. Never mind, they’ll come round some day.

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