Pulane, which is the female Sesotho name for rain. That was soooo many moons ago, only because I made a point of greeting and helping customers in their own languages. So a wonderful man gave me the nickname, and it lasted for a few years.

KK

I only answer to my first name, Mr and my surname or boss. Not mate or buddy or just my surname or anything like that.

Peggy.

The eastern europeans use my full first name, I guess because of some sense of belonging or something.

I also have a family-only nickname, which I've always had. All the fam use it, nobody outside ever can.

But otherwise, yeah I'm Mikey out there, too

Pizza

On the buses I'm known as Big man, big fella or big yin. When I was a screw it was boss, guv or sir

Cygnet-o.

Whats yours?

I asked first.

The pastry guy started calling me Professor, but the ladies call me Lovely David for some reason, I really don't know why. I'm kind of quiet and standoffish, if somewhat helpful.

But the guy from Vanuata they call him the Vietnamese word for ''black poppy seed'' or something, but they told him it meant handsome.

They can call me whatever they like in Vietnamese tbf, as long as I'm getting paid.

What's mlungu??

GP, County, Laserbait and a couple that won't make it past the filters.

You're definitely mishearing the second one.

''Actually, my hearing is excellent y'all.'' etc etc

There.. now you don't need to wait for his actual reply to that.

Don't have one . Just different ways of using my first name . Depends who it is.

My bandmates used to nickname me Jaco

I was wondering if you'd be saying it correctly lol. Do you know where the name came from?

Lots of Sesotho folk in Bloemfontein.

English John, J , Jonny. Those are the nice ones