Although not my birth name, I am known as Buzz in real life. When someone asks if it’s my real name, I usually try to convince them that it is and that I was born the year they landed on the moon and named after Buzz Aldrin. I was born that year, but before the landing
When asked how I got the name, I have a bogus story I tell people! I always say, “It’s a long story, all about a bunch of Mormons and a vibrator!” and that almost always results in ears pricking up. I then tell a story that is half truth and half fiction…
When I was younger, I was at a friend’s flat, when we got a visit from three preaching Mormons. We invited them in and we managed to convert one of them
(Up to this point, it’s 100% true, but from here, I am full of…)
About a year later, we were at the flat of the girl we converted. She had become a dirty cow TBH and while there, one of my friends noticed a vibrator sticking out from under the TV stand. There followed a conversation about it, where a friend said that it couldn’t do anything a man couldn’t and she said that she was turned on by the buzzing. I grabbed her hand, led her to the bed room and… Well, you can imagine! All the way through, I kept making loud buzzing noises. My friends were in the next room, laughing about it and from then, I have been known as Buzz.
Usually, after telling that story, the person I told it to will say, “Really?” and I smile and say, “No! But it’s more interesting than the truth!
The truth is that I support a team in the UK called the Bracknell Bees. When young, I was the noisy one in the crowd, who used to lead most of the chanting. After a game in 1988, a fan of the Cardiff Devils, who we had just played, said I was the man who put the Buzz into the Bees and it came from there… This time, it’s the truth