While watching the court proceedings unfold down in Florida I’ve been bothered by one thing: What makes a person decide to be called by the first letter of their first name? Did N. Sanders Sauls just wake up one day and proclaim that, “from now on, I will be referred to as “N””?
And when did this happen? Do you think it was in those rebellious days of high school? “Mom and Dad, quit calling me Nathaniel. From now on I will only answer to “N”. Yes, that’s right, not even Nate is short enough for me. I have to make my first name as short as possible. If I could make it a half grunt, that would be great, but, alas, I have to write something down on my test papers. Might as well be a single letter. Those chicks are really going to dig me now. I’ll be the coolest kid in Tallahassee High.”
Something tells me he was still beat to a pulp the next day at school by the smoking kids.