Porsche Guy has come up with a doozy of a pet name for me. It’s – um – rather unusual. I’ve certainly never heard of this particular word as a pet name before. PG is quite proud of that.
It came up one day when we were having a more-intense-than-usual discussion. I don’t even remember what it was about. But he wasn’t listening to my intelligent, well-thought-out, SANE point of view. So I kept interrupting him to remind him that he was wrong and I was, obviously, right.
PG eventually fell silent. So did I. Then he said, in an exasperated tone, “Donkey!”
“Donkey? What exactly do you mean by that?” I sputtered.
“You’re like a donkey!” he returned sharply.
“How am I a donkey?” I questioned. I was thinking that he thought I was either slow-witted or an ass. Neither prospect was enticing, I must say.
“Okay, maybe that’s the wrong word,” PG mused. “What I meant was that you’re stubborn. So maybe mule is a better word.”
That’s when I started to laugh. “So instead of mule, you call me a donkey?”
“Yeah, but I said it with lilt in my voice. It’s a pet name!” he said defensively.
“Donkey is NOT a pet name! Nobody gets called donkey affectionately!”
“Sure they do. There’s Donkey in Shrek …”
I laughed more. “That’s his NAME because he IS a donkey! It’s not a pet name!”
PG was laughing as much as me by this point. “But it could be. You like donkeys, they’re cute – why wouldn’t you want to be called Donkey?”
“Because it’s not a real pet name!”
“It is now. Donkey.”
Hee haw.
Thank you, 
Thank you, Fhina, at 
6 responses so far ↓
Jazz // May 15, 2009 at 5:38 am
Is that you in the pic? You’re so cute…
I quite like Donkey, myself.
pinklea // May 15, 2009 at 8:59 am
Jazz – Do donkeys come in pink? We know poodles do!
Fhina // May 18, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Donkeys are very sweet, and I think pretty clever, but you have to love a pet-name, and so if you feel it isn’t you, it isn’t…
We started off years ago by joking about some pet names, and then they stuck like glue – People used to turn around in the street when my (then~) little son called me by the daft name my OH calls me!
He has a pet-name of his own now, actually – Several in fact!
Great fun, great post!
pinklea // May 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Fhina – Pet names just kind-of happen, don’t they? Whether I would have chosen it or not, it looks like I am now Donkey. At least most people actually do seem to like donkeys.
VioletSky // May 25, 2009 at 7:37 am
Hmm, donkey, ass, mule. I think I prefer donkey. I always hated being called a ‘little monkey’ when I was young.
pinklea // May 25, 2009 at 10:30 am
VioletSky – I was called variously Mook (whatever that means) or Mouse when I was little. So I guess I’ve grown from a mouse to a donkey.
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