Both my first and last names are about the WASPiest names ever, super common, and incredibly easy to pronounce. I have had very few issues with that in my life.

sarameg, I'm so glad they didn't get anything of value! The fixing part sucks, though.

3 1/2 more days of school. I cannot wait.

My car isn't great at pronouncing things correctly. It pronounced Touhy (the street) as TAU-hee (rhymes with COW-hee). It's actually pronounced TOO-ee.

Since I installed the software update for my car, it now pronounces it T'hee, as if it were a Vulcan name.

Can't decide if that's good (she's hot!) or bad (I still don't know her!)

That made me laugh.

Someone smashed one of the (thankfully not-roll-down) windows on my car last night.

Booooo!

I need to take some time off this summer so I don't lose it, and I'm thinking about just random days. I wonder if I can get my boss to OK my doing it without much notice, so I can judge if it's going to be a nice day out and I'm not too busy.

My car isn't great at pronouncing things correctly.

My GPS unit is hilarious when it comes to pronouncing place names, especially if there's an abbreviation involved. It cracks me up every time she tells me to take the exit towards Verazzano Branch.

I need to take some time off this summer so I don't lose it, and I'm thinking about just random days.

I really wish I could afford a trip somewhere. I was longing to go to NYC this AM.

I need to get away from work and routine and I need some inspiration. I am pretty much money in and money out lately, and can't fathom putting an entire trip on the CC.

My car isn't great at pronouncing things correctly. It pronounced Touhy (the street) as TAU-hee (rhymes with COW-hee). It's actually pronounced TOO-ee.

Yeah, mine doesn't do too well either. It still pronounces "Lemnos" as "VROOM".

My GPS makes an interesting sort of vowel mush out of Lake Hiawatha.

I really wish I could afford a trip somewhere. I was longing to go to NYC this AM.

Yeah, I have one long-weekend trip planned, but that's about it. I can't decide if a week at home is better than five long weekends at home, you know?

I've been thinking about road-tripping later this summer. I'm possibly going camping with some friends in North Carolina, and I'll be in DC the week before, so I'm thinking about driving down there, stopping at Williamsburg and a few other places along the way, and then driving back through the mountains. I found out that there's a vegan B&B in the town where the Waltons lived, so I'm definitely thinking about staying there.

So I read this post about a man who was asked to leave a bookstore because a female shopper complained about him being in the children's section.

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So, I was reading the post, nodding along, and then the fourth sentence from the end. It's like the rant carried the person away and what was logic before evaporated into the ether.

Regardless, judging from name alone, I don't think it was only gender that made the person "suspicious" if you catch my drift.