That’s hilarious! I opened your reply up and held it for later and did the same thing, before ever reading your reply! Lol

And way too much coincidence. I won’t post my whole name, but I’m actually a hyphenate as well. My mom wrote her ex husband’s name on the birth certificate because when I was born it was a c section, but when they cut her she felt it. She’d had so many epidurals previously because of her surgeries for her disabilities that he had just built an immunity to them is our best guess they had to knock her out, and they asked her to sign the birth certificate before the drugs had fully worn off. Haha. So the birth certificate had one name (her ex husband and my brother’s name) and SS had another (my father’s) name, and no body ever realized the mistake until it came time to get it drivers license. I ended up hyphenating them as it was cheaper than getting one or the other changed at the time.

Should I ever get married I want to just add the third name. I really like the idea of collecting names haha

Also! Bridge tunnel story! The entire reason we moved to Hampton Roads is because we were living in a school bus, traveling and setting up with the carnival at the time. Very long sort of fall from grace type scenario. Haha. But the bus broke down inside in the tunnel. We were stuck there for hours and hours. We caused a huge traffic jam. And my mom was terribly claustrophobic. By the time the wrecker got there and got us out of the tunnel she told them to take us to the nearest camp ground instead of a mechanic. She was done. We stayed in a campground in Chesapeake for a few months and then didn’t leave Hampton roads for 15 years