From a Gingerbread cookie

by Rita
( Portland CT)

I don't mind being called a ginger or a carrot bottom or anything like that. (However, I hate being called a carrot top, because the tops of carrots are green.) The way I see it, I am those things. I'm a fire head, I'm a ginge, as a blonde is a blondie or a brunette is a brownie. But if that offends people, obviously, I don't call them that. To me, it's who I am. Some of them are even cute nicknames. I really don't mind it. In fact, my name is Gingerbread cookie at school, Gingerbread, ginger, or cookie for short. And to those people who do get offended, try saying something like, "It's not ginger. It's fire head." Make it so they call you a nickname that you like, like my 'Gingerbread cookie.'