dust number three

I mentioned earlier that someone at work has the same first name as me. For the sake of example, I'll replace my real name with "Dust." To differentiate between us ideas have been proposed and used, such as to specify the team we work on, to call me "Dust Prime," to refer to him as "the other Dust," etc. One idea was to use "Dust number one" and "Dust number two."

Someone else in my office meets with a kid every week as part of Big Brothers and Big Sisters who has the same first name as me. When the kid was referenced as "Dust number three" yesterday, I recalled that this is what my mom calls me now.

I think my mom's purpose in life is to work with young kids. She loves the baby through elementary stages of life. As a result, she has very fond memories of when I was in that age range. When I speak with her I am often reminded of how I am different now than I was then. My mom refers to my persona in this wonderful stage in my life as Dust number one.

Like most kids, I grew into a teenager that did not always see eye to eye with my parents, and so there were occasionally clashes. I also did not want to be seen in the Dust number one persona at that time. My mom refers to my persona in this trying stage of life as Dust number two.

Since I am not the same person I was in high school and early college, my mom now refers to me as Dust number three.

For the obvious confusion reasoning involved, I think I am going to encourage other ways to distinguish myself from other Dusts. Now that I have had time to think about it, I think I like "Dust Prime." It has a nice ring to it.