i feel you on this one. example 1. my maiden name...

2009-09-02T20:06:27.333-07:00

i feel you on this one.

example 1. my maiden name was very ordinary and boring, i thought no parent would do that to their kid but mine. Michele Smith. but when we moved to Lafayette into the exact same complex as another Michele Smith (with the messed up spelling of Michele and the same middle initial) so i was proven wrong. And almost evicted twice because of HER failure to pay her rent. Back in the days when you ordered music CD's through columbia house (perhaps you are too young to remember that one?) she often got my CD's, and she kept them refusing to give them back even though i had to pay for them. i finally had to move to a new complex because i had been threatened by the complex for eviction for the last time.

example 2. Michael Livingston. evidentially there was a man when we first moved to Laf that loved to get drunk and then drive or many other bad things. people were always asking me at work if that was my husband, to which i would say, "NO! quit asking me that." i finally had to bring my very normal husband into work to prove that he wasn't this 45 year old crazy man who got into bar fights and so on. Finally that man skipped town and never made it into the papers again.

example 3. my dad and my brother are named John Smith. yes, my family can be quite boring if you let them. ;-) My brother went to Costa Rica when he was younger and it would take too long to tell the story... but it took days on the phone with the Embassy and the local government here and there to get him on a plane back home. his life was threatened and he had to hide out in a family members friends house down there. Just recently he was coming back from Korea and he and his Korean wife spent 7 hours in customs because he is on the "terrorist watch list". Well not him personally, but every man named "John Smith" is on the watch list now.

i am sorry that you went through all of that. believe me that story is much better than all 3 of mine. but in this crazy world that we live in today, you are right... Name your children something crazy/unusual (but not too crazy. Pilot Inspector isn't a good name no matter how famous you are in movies!)

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i feel you on this one. example 1. my maiden name...