People want all sorts of things in life. When I was five, my favorite movie was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. And, I was a child of highly refined taste, so naturally I wanted to be Cousin Eddie from the movie. I wanted to be called Sparky. My mom wouldn’t oblige me and continued to call me my early childhood nickname of Booger instead. I never gave up on being called Sparky though or admiring the lifestyle of living in a recreational vehicle.
I’m getting married in the next year or two, and I am slowly warming my fiancee up to the idea of wearing a Cousin Eddie style blue leisure suit at our nuptials.