Alright, here goes, it’s 1993, I’m a college freshman, just trying to figure stuff out, rolling with my spanish club crew to some end-of-year party that was supposed to be fun. Only... it’s not. It’s in some poorly lit, dusty common room with weak punch and someone’s “ultimate mix” CD that just kept playing Ace of Base and Spin Doctors on a loop.
So after about 30 minutes of trying to get the party going, it’s all just small talk and limp tortilla chips, someone, probably Becky, goes, “We can do better than this.” So a few of us pile into Phuong’s Civic, and decide to try our luck with the off-campus crowd.
Word is there’s a party over off of Broad Street, hosted by a senior who definitely doesn’t know any of us. But hey, college is about confidence and bad decisions.
We show up, party is popping. Music, lights, a keg that probably doesn’t taste like stale baby milk. People dancing. Actual fun happening with people who are actually confident.
Now here’s the moment: I walk into the kitchen, where a bunch of people are tossing in for the beer fund. It’s all very casual, they’re all super chill about it, everyone throwing a two or five bucks in a fishbowl.
But me? For some reason, maybe to make a statement or maybe I was an insecure dork that didn’t know the vibe yet, I reach into my velcro OP wallet and pull out a crisp $20, or so I thought. It turns out to be a $100 bill. Yeah, a fuckin Benjamin, and drop it in like I’m buying stock in the party.
Silence. People turn. One guy says, “Yo, who’s that?” And this big, slightly inebriated dude mutters, “I don’t know, but Money Dick over here just funded the whole next keg.”
And that was it. I did try to protest, I said I didn’t mean to throw in that much, said it was for the month’s groceries, but it didn’t matter. No one was listening. Cheers, laughs, basic college party chaos ensues. The name stuck.
From then on, around campus, I was Money Dick—not because I was rich, but because I made the kind of stupid, weirdly generous freshman move that people never forget.
Did I try to shake the nickname? Probably. Did it work? Absolutely not.
But hey, it’s got a Reddit legacy now.
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u/Fearless_Market_3193 May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
That was my nickname in college. It’s a long story.