My mama always says she owed a big debt to a toy poodle. My Papa had a friend, a very best friend, a friend so good he decided he would name his firstborn after this friend, regardless of the baby’s sex. Only problem being that said friends name was “Rumsey Sylvester”
Now my Grammie did not agree with this plan. “Rumsey Sylvester” is a lovely name but not what she wants her child to be named. My Papa was a stubborn man though and had promised himself this idea.
But my Grammie was a very clever lady. A week before my Grammie had my mother she went out and bought a toy poodle. She registered his name officially and showed my Papa. She said “there can only be one Rumsey Sylvester in the family”
And that’s how my mama avoided being named Rumsey Sylvester and owed a debt to a tiny toy poodle.
