Move Over Zac Efron

At the supermarket yesterday the kid ringing up my items had the regulation nametag on, only it read 'Zac Efron,' which of course is the name of the star of all 20 versions of  High School Musical. Yep, ‘Zac Efron’ spelled the letters neatly machine-chiseled onto that small Chiclet of plastic.

“Manager off today?” I almost said to the kid but what did I know about the situation really? Maybe the manager is the one put him up to this prank. And what could I say that a hundred people before me hadn’t already said to him, plus he was busy joking away with the girl workin’ the next register so I just handed over the dough and moved along.

But he had given me an idea: I'm scheduled to give a talk tomorrow night and sometimes at events like everyone fills out a nametag so I’m thinkin' "Can I put  “Susan Boyle?” I’d LOVE to be Susan Boyle, with her little Scottish village and an old-time piano in the parlor and a voice to send those scary tigers packing for keeps. Good idea, right? I mean until I got to college and my roommate came at me with a pair of tweezers I sure had the eyebrows!