early on there were quite a few people named tom at meetings. actually sat at one with 6 other toms. people would laugh when the chair asked tom if hed like to share.
i got the nick "young tom" as i was the youngest.
then i turned 40 and for some mysterious reason the "young" disappeared.
so i started sayin tomsteve, basically because theres a lot of billybobs, jimbobs, bobbyjoes,etc out there but not many tomsteves!