A2Z Challenge — The Letter H

Fandango

I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends.

H is for Henri G.

Okay, hold on there, Buckaroo. Don’t go jumping to the wrong conclusion. Henri was her nickname. She was kind of Tomboy-like. Not masculine as much as big. I was 6’1 and she was almost as tall as me. And I’ve no doubt that she outweighed me because I was quite thin at the time.

I met her in my freshman year at college in one of my first classes. She was different and I thought she was cool, so after class on that first day I introduced myself to her. When she introduced herself to me and told me she was Henri, with an i at the end, but pronounced it like it had a y at the end. I asked her if that was her real name. She admitted that her real name was Henrietta, but she hated that name. I told her that I was going to call her Etta, not Henri, because I didn’t want to tell people I was dating someone named Henri, lest they get the wrong idea. She laughed and said, “Oh, are we dating?” and I said that I’d like that.

We dated for a couple of months until she met a sophomore athlete who was probably about 6’4 and who outweighed me and Henrietta/Henri/Etta combined. So she dumped me.

But I was pleased to hear her introducing herself to others later on in the semester as Etta and not Henri. I considered that to be a victory even though she broke my heart. Well, perhaps a pyrrhic victory, but a victory nonetheless.

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28 thoughts on “A2Z Challenge — The Letter H”

  2. DB McNicol April 9, 2024 / 11:21 am

    I still wonder how a classmate in elementary school who was named Carla, was nicknamed Mikey.

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    • Fandango April 9, 2024 / 4:10 pm

      Maybe her middle name was Michele and she shortened it to Mikey?

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      • DB McNicol April 10, 2024 / 10:22 am

        You could be right, I’m more used to Michelle being shortened to Micki.

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  4. leigha66 April 10, 2024 / 11:51 am

    I haven’t been called a buckaroo in… ever, ha, ha, ha! I am getting really curious what the gals name is for X.

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