My nickname is not of my imagination. It was bestowed upon me over 30 years ago by those that knew me well. Back in the day when no one had any money, I was the one who fixed anything and everything that was broken. Cars, dishwashers, pumps, washing machines, motors/engines of any kind, the house electrical service panel, didn’t matter, I fixed it.
There were many times I would be called to attend to something that was acting up. And on several occasions the mechanism, whatever it might have been, would straighten up and behave perfectly normal as soon as I arrived. Then it would remain working perfectly for as long as it was expected to. After a few instances of this my friends started to say that I had the ‘Force’.
Many then began to call me Jedi. The letters of the term having the similarities it does with my real name (Jody), it seems understandable. A few years later, having witnessed the above, my then future brother-in-law started putting Jedi and Jody together calling me Jedijody. That was almost 30 years ago and I guess it stuck. Aside from my close friends and family, I am known as Jedijody on almost a dozen forums of various interests.