Most of you all know me as Wicked Basket, but I just changed that recently as you can clearly see. Not quite sure what I was going for with that, but I never changed it because I felt like having to inform everyone of the name change was going to be too meticulous, but whatever. I did it anyway.
ANYWAAAAAAYYYYYY
You're probably all curious as to the whole 'Dingbat' thing. Well that involves a story.
You see, I work at Walmart. One weekend we had to set up what called a Table Event, which is basically a bunch of items sitting on a table so that customers can see them and we can show them off. However, they were expensive things that someone would surely try to steal. So, Walmart decided that in order to stop this from happening that an associate would have to stand by that table constantly to make sure nothing was stolen. I, of course, was lucky enough to be one of those associates.
Needless to say it was boring as hell. One day I had to stand at that damn table for 6 hours straight having to honestly (and incredibly awkwardly) explain to anyone that came to me for help that I was not allowed to move from my spot. One such of these people was an elderly woman looking for a particular movie. You see, we have a list of all the movies that we carry, so if a customer is looking for a specific one we can tell them whether or not we have it without spending the next 15 minutes looking through all of our DVD's in order to find it. However, I wasn't allowed to move. I informed the woman of this and she responded with "Seriously?" Luckily my department manager swooped in to assist her and back me up in telling her that I could not, in fact, move from where I was standing.
After all was said and done and the woman found her movie, I overheard her talking to my department manager. It was then that I heard her say that I was "just standing there like a dingbat". I had no idea what the hell that was supposed to mean, but everyone I told thought it was absolutely hilarious. Needless to say, I took to it very quickly. I started becoming my username on many things and even my Steam ID.
So yeah. I'm Dingbat because on old lady called me a dingbat. Dingbats are also word puzzles that I quite enjoy, so there's that too.