It is Greenwood not MLK

I was talking to someone the other day and referred to “Countryside Mall”. They didn’t know what I was talking about. After explaining they said, “Oh, you mean Westfield Shopping Center.” To which I responded “whatever” but what I wanted to say was “no bitch…I said what I meant…. the F’n Countryside Mall.”

If I have been calling something by one name for years (whether it is the “proper” name or the name I and everyone else knows something as) then I don’t give a crap if you change the name. I am going to call it by what I know it as.

There are very few exceptions to my rule. If you tear down the old place and build a new one, i.e. Tampa Stadium/Raymond James Stadium, I might, I repeat MIGHT, start referring to the location by the new name. If the old name had no meaning to me and the new name does, again, I might use the new name, i.e. Florida Suncoast Dome/ Thunder Dome/ Tropicana Field. I will call this Tropicana field. While I am at it, I will also abbreviate as I see fit. It is the Trop.

Sorry FedEx. It is the Orange Bowl, not the FedEx Orange Bowl. I watch the Lightning play at the Ice Palace, not the St. Pete Times Forum. There is a chance I could refer to it as the Forum someday but I am not there yet and it will never be the St. Pete Times Forum.

I don’t care if you rename a street or a building or a park or even yourself (unless your name is Muhammad Ali or Kareem Abdul Jabbar). I will call it or you what I want.

Now I think I am going to go get a soda at the Pick-Kwik.