I've Got A Name

This morning on my way to work, after I stopped to get Starbucks Hot Cocoa from the weirdest lady ever, my van said it was 39 degrees outside. 39!!!!!!! I didn't know my van's thermal gauge went below 48. It was so cold out there that my face hurt just to be outside.

This may not seem like a big deal to some, but I ask, what happened to all that global warming talk? It's freakin' COLD!!!!

I also got a weird discussion from the toothless worker at the Starbucks about my name, which she wanted to write on the cup even though I was the only person getting anything. She asked if it was Daniel on my birth certificate, and when I responded yes, she replied that her son was named Danny on his birth certificate. She decided (in her wisdom) that since his friends would one day shorten his name for him anyway, she'd just do it at birth. So now wherever he goes, people want to call him Daniel, which is incorrect because his name starts as Danny. It can be shortened to Dan, but can't be lengthened. Which seemed weird to me, why would you start somebody out with a nickname? This has done nothing (according to her) but cause problems for him throughout his life, as bank loans, school documents and other legal papers. This also leads to another question, if we can have nicknames that are shorter, what's the name for a longer version of our names? I've decided now that since I'm not doing any research about it, I'm going to coin the word, 'Dannyname'. So now if someone is named Bob and you want to call them Bobby, you can! It's their Dannyname. Spectacular, yes?

So kid whom I've never met whose mother named him Danny on his birth certificate, have no worries, you can now be called Daniel, it's totally legal and acceptable. As I live in California, and we can make whatever laws and rules we want no matter how stupid. I decree that this is a real thing. Congratulations to my readers, you have witnessed history.