C.: I’m back here on my blog, Cal.E.’s Korner with a very interesting guest: Skip Alan Day. Skip, how did you come by your name?
Skip: That’s not the name of my birth certificate, Cal.E.
C.: I see. Would you care to expound on that statement?
Skip: No, not really.
C.: Why not?
S.: Because I'm busy eating.
C.: Well, maybe a should guess then?
S.: Go ahead and guess. I’ll tell you if you’re even close.
C.: Okay, were you ever the manager of a baseball team? The manager is sometimes called “the Skipper.”
S.: No.
C.: Were you ever the captain of a sea-going vessels? Sometimes the captain is referred to as the skipper of one, especially if it’s a small vessel.
S.: no, that’s not it, either.
C.: Then, are you, or were you at one time very proficient as skipping rocks on water?
S.: No, that’s not it, either. I might as well tell you, since I'm through eating now. You'll never guess the answer.
My given name is Alan Day, but I was very truant when I was in high school. My school was so large that, when the homeroom teachers called toll during first period, they only had time to call the firs initial of one’s first name, along with the last name. I missed so many classes that the teachers started calling me “Skip.” And, since they only called the first letter of my firs name, I became known as “Skip A. Day.” Isn’t that an interesting story?
C.:….That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.
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