Frito Season 3: Volume 1

Dear bloggie friends,
It's been a while! Welcome back to Summer's Spot. I hope you enjoy this summer's installments of Consumer Corner.
Your favorite consumer advocate,
Summer
PS Check out Mom and Dad's blog if you haven't.

Best names
Tawana
Sharhonda
Fonda
Jenara
Jakiba
Trachel
Toya (Should I have told her that was our pet cat's name?)
LaVon
Manette
Wakisha
Murlin
Shatericka
Jerrdell
Xylina
Dorchita (Doritos + Cheetos?)

Best cities
Indian Rocks Beach FL (and the guy added, "like Tonto jammin on the sand")
Cornelius NC

Best foreign matter
staples
part of a cigarette wrapper

Best reasons for calling
to request to be transferred to the person in charge of our corporate art collection
to ask if dark chips are safe to eat
to tell me you cut your lip on a tortilla chip (be careful with those!)
to find out what kind of potato peeler machine we use in our plants because you want to buy one
to ask why we don't put less product in bags and charge more (I think that one was sarcastic.)
to ask what's the difference between wavy Lay's and Ruffles (nothing, really)
to tell me Fritos are GREAT with cream cheese
to report your displeasurant experience with a bag of chips
to find out what happened to the Doritos in the pretty brown bag
to tell me you don't like Sunchips because they're plain (there are seasoned ones...)
to express your extreme frustration and desperation to find our jalapeno crackers (we're talking drive-100-miles-extreme)
to ask if you won a prize because you found a heart-shaped chip (yes!!! coupons!! thanks, Abbie)
to tell me you're "disgusted with the food chain"

And the consumer of the week is...
Joseph Joseph from last summer. You probably don't remember him, but I do. I looked him up in our system and we have nine recorded calls from him. There are probably a lot more. He didn't talk as long this time, only about 30 minutes, but I just let him keep going because it was entertaining. He mostly talked about Americana...Clara Barton, Uncle Sam, Betsy Ross, Girl Scouts, things we should put on our bags. He kept calling me Deborah and saying, "Just tell them this one thing," and proceeding to say several things. Some other things he said:
My brain flows freely outward.
Some people drink, smoke or gamble but I talk.
If you have children, let those children flow outward as far as their thoughts.
Some of us thrive on the beauty of something that might exist.

thanks, Joseph :)

the rest of the story...I mean, the trip

I'll make the commentary concise because I just spent forever messing with the pictures.
Matthew posing before school with his rad backpack.








Little Robby experimented with my camera's color settings. Very artsy. I like the Cheerios box.












































































































pre-graduation lunch photo shoot

























and jam session









































Restaurant photo shoot--this one is Audrey smashing a fly.





































Why do I have so many of Robby and me and none of Robby and Sharon? The kidlets had my camera...that must be it.





tassels become me



















the other Dr. Bob


















mmmm









































yes, we are so precious









so are they


































Kind of random, I know, but they were cute.










This video and the next one were requested. James and Matthew wanted me to record their songs and share them in blogland. Sorry they're sideways. I gotta stop doing that.

graduation day

Blogger's been acting up, but here's my first installment of pictures. I had so much fun hanging out with M&D, R&S and A&D last weekend. Dad, you should have stayed longer. R&S took me straight to the stadium when I arrived and graduation was quite the event. We were there for about 7 hours.
Copernicus in all his hooded and capped glory.











The stadium was almost full.









Mom and I braved the 100-degree weather by standing in the shade for a while. We were on the sunny side of the stadium but Dad stayed in the stands the whole time. When I asked him if he was okay he said "I'm a Crane."







The new American university?








The stand where we saw performances from some groups best left unmentioned. The happy result was that Alice Cooper's performance inspired a viewing of "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike," an episode featuring an appearance by none other than Alice Cooper.



Laaa da-da-da daaa daaaaa..... (that's Pomp and Circumstance)








This is when we started getting bored. I'm about to switch positions. I'll let Andra and Sharon give details if they want. :)

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