Like Professor Ross in Friends - made up names for people?

Yup   There's Barking Dogs people, the Church lady, (there's far fewer of them around here than around you probably   ) Thingy, Big Tim and Little Tim.....

Yes, especially with parents from soccer. If I tell DH "Tristan's mom" he'll have no idea who I mean, but "Amy Farrah Fowler mom," he knows instantly who I mean... I know her real name now, but still call her that in my head.


Half our neighborhood is named Eric, so there's Eric, Eric who let us borrow his saw once Eric, Hayden's house Eric...

When I was growing up, we lived on the last street in a suburban neighborhood. There was a lady that lived at the very front that saw everyone come and go and seemed to know EVERYTHING that happened on every street.

My parents started calling her “Checkpoint Charlie” like the crossing point in the Berlin Wall. Years after we moved, they still referred to her by that name.

Not very clever (or pc) but at our previous house we called the one neighbor "crazy neighbor".  Then our other neighbor started being a real witch so the other neighbor became "old crazy neighbor" and she was "new crazy neighbor".  

In the end they both ended up being ok once we got past some issues.  But we still call them that!

We had a number of Pete's/Peter's.
Little Peter
Big Peter
Petes
Pete Pete from across the street
Pete P

Oh, and we have a friend who kind of cranks thru girlfriends. Rather than try to remember their real names we make up names for them. Lots are based on where they are from.
West End
Mostacholi
Big as Texas
Scurvine Irvine

One of my neighbors is Roadrunner- I swear she is up and down our road every 2 minutes and doesn't slow down. Every single time I walk Louis, I have to get out of the road for her-usually twice on the same walk. I don't know where she could be going but it drives me insane. She probably says the same thing about me and the little dog.

We usually name people by the pets they have. Molly's Mom, Buddy's Dad. We do call our one neighbor Parrot Head. He wears Hawaiian shirts daily and his license plate says parrot head. We didn't know his name when we first moved in here so that was how we referred to him, unfortunately the name just stuck.

I have lots of mental nicknames for people, especially at work. Examples include Ozzy (a woman, who reminds me of the chorus of certain 1980s Ozzy Osborne song when I have to interact with her), Colonel Sanders (a man who looks just like the original KFC mascot), and Boson-Higgs (the IT support tech whose surname is Boson, and, much like the Higgs Boson particle, is difficult to find).

Yes, it's what I do!

I walk 3 miles every day. (Well, I did before I had all this homework). In that time I've come to learn several regulars, because besides me there are several other weirdos out walking around every day and many of them are, shall we say, peculiar.
One brought me a turtle in a takeout carrier...so he became Turtle Man. Formerly he was Secret Agent Man because he used to leave notes staked into the ground around the bike path.

Big Mel walks around with a jug of sweet tea every day. He walks so much I don't even know how he's still "big" Mel.

Randy shuffles to McDs for a coffee several times a day. He's not to be confused with Ron, also with the look of a former alcoholic and highly medicated schizophrenic. Ron is gray and I haven't seen him in ages. I suspect he died.

Captain Graybeard marches to his own beat but lately he must have found a barber because his most distinguishing feature is gone. I can only recognize him by body type and walk now.

There's Big Depressed Guy, who lost about 30 lbs the same time I did. He only walks when it's cooler out so I don't see him as often.

There is Bathrobe Lady, Spotted Hound guy, That Chick With The Dog Gracie (my dog) Hated, Dr Beats (named for his knockoff Beats headphones), the Mismatched Couple, Crazy Eyes, and Shiba Inu Lady. I suspect I used to be Yellow Lab Lady, who knows what funnier name someone has for me.

I keep meaning to start a comic with all of us in it.

I do this sometimes, but I don't remember any of them off the top of my head. 

But, I know the people in our neighborhood have names like this, because that's how they were introduced to us by our neighbors- lol!!  (our neighborhood is mostly retired people). There are two 'Kens' so one is "two dog Ken" and the other one is "one cat Ken."  

a while ago, we had a very antisocial neighbor who had some odd quirks-- he accused us of stealing his water, and one day most of the dishes were broken in the middle of the street-- he was REALLY strange.  We never learned what his actual name was, so we called him 'the idiot.'

Yup, we do it here too. Not so much our actual neighbors because we know all their names, but the people on the fringes of our neighborhood that DH hasn’t found a way to introduce himself to yet. There’s Lawn Chair Old Guy who sits out in a lawn chair in his front yard pretty much every nice day from April through October and waves at everyone who drives past. Annoying Boxer Mom who lets her two boxers poop on the boulevard on the grass path to the park across the street and never picks it up. There’s a dog I want to call Roxy but that isn’t her name. Her owner and a friend walk past our house every day while DD and I are waiting for the bus in the morning, they’re The Walking Ladies. There’s Friendly Guy who walks an older dog almost every day. There’s Crabby Guy who walks a little white and black dog, but now that DH knows him we know he’s not actually crabby, but he does have an impressive resting bitch face for a guy.

I’m sure there are more. I’m terrible with remembering names so DH is always trying to think of ways to describe the people so I’ll know which house he’s talking about, LOL. He has a bunch for the houses he’s worked at, including a number of “trash house” or “borderline hoarder” people, so he has to clarify by adding, “the one where the mouse ran over my foot” or “the one that had the cat stuck in the ceiling” or “the one with the cobwebby spider hole crawl space”—shudder! Makes me glad I only work in the office!