Tin-Tin
After 'borrowing' my fathers goldmaster MD, and getting hooked on MDing at a very early age, I would end up digging more tin than coins half the time, so my father started calling me "Tin-Tin" when we went out MD together. He always let me take the lead, to 'pick up the trash' as it were.
He's since passed in 71' of cancer, but I still think about him every time I dig up a pulltab or a piece of tin out of the ground.
So you see, Tin-Tin stuck, and I've been using it ever since. To this day I can still hear him laughing as I pull out another pulltop out of a deep hole I just dug, but I know in my heart he's with me every day, looking over my shoulder and laughing.
I miss him....