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Important people with important names

Better Half and I have important people in our lives, ones we don’t necessarily see all the time or cross paths with or talk to with great frequency.

But when we need them, we need them.

Yesterday if not now, as in immediately if possible. Get it?

Maybe it’s that way for you, too.

And the funny thing is, these important people are people we refer to by names other than their given ones. Yes, we know their real names, which come in handy when we have to look up their telephone numbers, but generally we refer to them by our names that we’ve given them.

It just makes sense for comprehension in our challenged husband-and-wife conversations.

I was reminded of this in recent weeks when I told Better Half I was going to call “My Do Gal.”

I always get eyeball rolling when I make this announcement, because Better Half thinks I see “My Do Gal” way too often.

“You just got your hair done,” he’ll sling the accusation, whether it’s been four weeks, six weeks or what seems like only yesterday because short hair is short ever so briefly. Overnight, it can seem as if the bed pillow had been sprinkled with Miracle Gro.

“No, it’s too long,” I disagreed about the state of my hair when it starts to go flat on top, short as it is these days compared to this column picture above taken many, many do’s ago.

“Besides,” I argue my need for a visit to the magical, mood-transforming hair-cutting chair, “I need a little color, and I’m not talking gray.”

More eye rolling, courtesy of the Mr. of the house.

I’m appreciative of “My Do Gal” because I don’t have to go to her with a picture or specific instructions. I just show up, and she interprets with ease my suggestion to “make me sassy, please.”

It’s good to have a good “My Do Gal” in your life.

And other people, too.

We were in the barn when it occurred to us that we needed to touch base with another important person in our lives.

“Better call ‘The Hay Guy,'” Better Half gave voice to a suggestion I’m sure Tucker and Thunder would have seconded had it been posed as a motion on the barn floor up for a vote.

Horses might not talk, but I know what they’re thinking.

I’m sure there are times, for instance, when Thunder, teenager that he is, is probably thinking literally — “Get off my back!”

Anyway, yes, I need to call “The Hay Guy,” and when I look up his number in our pity-poor excuse for a personal phone book, there is his real name right next to his Kiaski given name, “The Hay Guy.”

Time to give him a call and say, “Hey, we need hay.”

There’s another good person to have in your life, no matter what he goes by.

(Kiaski, a resident of Richmond, is a staff columnist and features writer for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and community editor for the Herald-Star. She can be contacted a jkiaski@heraldstaronline.com.)

 

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