They can call me whatever they want just as long as the don't call me late for dinner!!

Seriously, I find there is a great freedom in folks thinking I'm a little weird. It gives me a lot of freedom to experiment with different things (like walking around with a maxpedition fatboy in public all the time) and they just ignore it.

The folks in my neighborhood and at work are used to me being eccentric and some of my coworkers often pick at me being "preparedness man" and with the same breath will tell me "that's a good idea, I want to do that at my house!".

The folks that would have a problem with my preparedness hobby tend to leave me alone, and that's cool because I don't like them either.