My name

First off.. Happy Birthday One Love!!, and Happy Birthday Lauren!!

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So after watching Ruth's Happy B-Day Video today, when she sang about me and how everyone calls me by my full name, I immediately thought of a semi-funny story about it.  This might end up being one of those "you had to be there" type stories but here goes...

A few years back when Cassie and Cathy and I still lived in Kentucky, we would frequent a Steak N Shake restaurant almost every night of the summer.  We became BFF with one of the servers there, named Mathis.  Steak N Shake is a 24/7 chain diner restaurant.  Sometimes these visits were at 4 or 5 am, so it made for a pretty late evening.  I lived between Louisville and Cincinnati, but a little bit closer to Louisville, so the drive back home was about 45 minutes, and not a good idea especially at that time of night when I would fall asleep at the wheel.  

So on one of these nights...

I ended up crashing in Cassie's basement of her house and the next morning her grandmother asked who else was downstairs (or something like that) to which the reply was "....ChrisStahl".  Now if you say it fast, it sounds like Crystal, which I'm pretty sure is how she intended for it to sound.  I'm guessing boys weren't aloud to sleep over or something like that.  So it was a sneaky way to be honest and say my name, but say it quickly so it sounded like "Crystal".  I guess my parents wanted a girl.

And then I found 10 dollars