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Well, this year may be a bit different.
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I spent summers in yakima at my grandma's....
I have no memory of any rain falling while I visited... ever...
I do remember having to go around the neighborhood yelling for Booger...
My grandma's little terrier had escaped the yard and was running free...
People sure give ya strange looks when your 10 years old running around the neighborhood yelling for booger... come here booger... here booger, here girl.....
and now I can laugh about it.. but at 10 I was mortified..
My mother is from Holland and her maiden name is Boogers! When she moved to the U.S., she worked as a teller at a bank and never understood why so many people laughed at her until she had kids!
Bad thing is when I got to HS and College and opened various bank accounts, credit cards, and various other things that requires "mother's maiden name" as a security question, I hated the laughter I'd get (plus it makes the security word easy for others to remember). I would make up random names for the answer. Years later when I needed the answer to the security question, I couldn't remember what fake I gave! I was traveling in Texas 2 summers ago, and the only credit card we brought was mine that I opened in college. We went to a gas station late at night in the middle of BFE and couldn't pay because they had frozen the account since I had never used the account out of state before, and since I did not know what name I had made-up all those years ago, I could not activiate the card! We had to wait until morning and I had a lengthy phone conversation before they allowed me limited access to my credit card (only gas stations, motels and meals) until we got back to Washington because they were still not 100% certain it was me!
My Grandmother's maiden name was "Guns". Her uncle and aunt immigrated to the U.S. and moved to Zillah, WA. Their son, my grandmother's Cousin Bert became Sheriff of Yakima county for something like 40 years. I always thought that was a cool name for a Sherriff, Sheriff Guns!
