Exercise Carole.\u00a0 If you live in The Villages long enough, you know exactly what I am saying.\u00a0 We tend to tag our friends’ names, so everyone will know who we are referring to.\u00a0\u00a0 Before moving here my friends were Lynn, Jo, Patti, Carol, Bernice, Rossa, Karen etc. \u00a0 If I spoke of Patti everyone knew who I was talking about.\u00a0 However, now because of involvements in clubs, organization and activities, \u00a0it seems\u00a0we have many friends with the same name.\u00a0 Take Carole, I have my original friend Carol from New Jersey, then Exercise Carole who I met in\u00a0water aerobics, then \u00a0Estevez Carol who became a friend and lives on Estevez Dr., and a newly added Carole from N.J. who moved into a Premier section, so she is referred to as Premier Carole.\u00a0 I liken it to the Barbie phenomenon.\u00a0 There was the original Barbie, then Holiday Barbie, Circus Barbie, Dynasty Barbie and so on. I really hadn’t realized how much this is done until I overheard a conversation and the name Pat was mentioned.\u00a0 The other person said\u00a0Pat who?\u00a0\u00a0Pickleball Pat, oh that Pat and the conversation proceeded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We all use the words big and little, and when used in that context we mean height, 5’8″ or 5’2″.\u00a0 We never use fat or skinny, just as there would never be a Fat Barbie or a Skinny Barbie.\u00a0\u00a0At many of the activities there are name tags,\u00a0 some temporary, that are good for one use and thrown away\u00a0and others that are permanent,\u00a0tags that you can buy and when not in use, are lined up like soldiers on our dressers.\u00a0 Every once\u00a0in a while you will go to an activity and some will have tags\u00a0and others won’t, and\u00a0it isn’t long\u00a0before your curiosity gets the best of you and you inquire, how do I get a name tag?\u00a0\u00a0It usually involves something special you have done for the group.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There is only one exception for me to this rule.There are many Kathys, but only one that is the membership chair for the Village Homeowners Association (huge job), Florida Master Gardener, chair of the Bookworm Book Club (does phenomenal job) President and Founder of the Staten Island Club, Treasurer of the Marion Co. Rose Society (best Garden Tours ever) and membership chair of\u00a0 The Village Birders…you may think we call her Bookworm Kathy, or Rose Kathy, Homeowner Kathy or Birder Kathy…no this Kathy,\u00a0\u00a0for all she does for our community, \u00a0is\u00a0\u00a0referred to as Kathy Porter. \u00a0I know of no one else that is\u00a0more deserving of\u00a0 a last name than\u00a0 Kathy is.\u00a0 Thanks Kathy Porter, \u00a0for enriching our lives so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exercise Carole.\u00a0 If you live in The Villages long enough, you know exactly what I am saying.\u00a0 We tend to tag our friends’ names, so everyone will know who we are referring to.\u00a0\u00a0 Before moving here my friends were Lynn, Jo, Patti, Carol, Bernice, Rossa, Karen etc. \u00a0 If I spoke of Patti everyone knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}