but my father changed it after people started it off one-too-many times as "Fried" (like eggs). I guess Dad didn't like fried eggs. He also changed his first name from Otto to Frank at the advice of a "girlfriend" whose identity I never learned. Thereby mightily confusing all the genealogists who were trying to find us. That's girl-frend, not girl-fried, of course. Apparently she didn't like eggs either.

WHAT swap meet in Laughlin? Never knew they had one. Never knew enough people lived in Laughlin to acquire things to swap. So hot down there, you could cook fried . . . well, you know what . . . on the sidewalks.