I’ve met someone named Hadley.
All I can think about is Harvey Korman from Blazing Saddles.
The That’s Hedley line keeps running through my head.
The Hadley I’ve just met is young, so hopefully no one from this generation will get the Blazing Saddles reference, and no one will laugh.
Except me.
And only on the inside.
I don’t feel too bad about laughing because all my life I’ve been called names.
Kids used to sing the Lizzie Borden song at me all the time.
Also, for years, I heard non-stop, “Not now, I’m right in the middle of a Rothschild’s,” although today probably nobody remembers that jingle.
What I’ve always tried to do is to get everyone to recognize that I am actually the Queen of England, but for some reason that never caught on.
Everyone’s name has got a funny reference.
Once, when one of my boys was young, he got in trouble for cracking a joke about a teacher’s name.
Yes, it was rude, and yes, he deserved to be punished.
But it was also clever.
Over the years, I had heard all of the nicknames for this teacher, and my kid came up with a new one.
They could have given him a little credit for coming up with something unique.
He didn’t get credit.
He got in trouble.
Oh well.
He’s also one of the few young people who have seen, and appreciated, Blazing Saddles.
So there’s that.
That’s Hedley!
Liz Brenner
Everyone has a story to tell.
Even you.
Especially you.
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