Lady I Think You May Be The One With Issues

It's 1974 and  my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Bood( tremendous name for a tremendously odd woman) had asked my class to write a paper on something personal about ourselves. My paper was on how I got my middle name. Well, after I wrote my paper, Mrs. Bood called my mother to tell her that she was a bit concerned with my paper and was wondering if there was anything going on with me or at my home that she should know about. She told my mother that she thought that I may have some issues that needed to be addressed. My mother asked why and Mrs. Bood said that when asked to write a paper about something personal about ourselves, that my story seemed to be not only massively exaggerated but an out an out fabrication. My mother being someone that wasn't going to let someone tell her that her son was a liar said right back at her "Lady, I think you may be the one with the issues, that story was 100% true!"
So, here is the story of how I got my middle name. Back in 1964, my mother (who was a really good athlete in her day) was on a bowling team in a league on the northside of Chicago. Her bowling team won the league title and my mother was a big part of it. Not only that but she also happened to be 8 months pregnant with me at the time! I'm sure in today's world, doctors probably would recommend that bowling at 8 months pregnant wouldn't be the best thing in the world to do. Also smoking cigarettes and having the occasional drink would probably be frowned upon which I also know my mother did while she was pregnant with me. (Guess what? anyone reading this over the age of 45, your moms probably did the same thing). So, anyhow, the bowling alley that she bowled at and won the league title was named the Howard Bowl. ( on Howard street by the Howard L for all you folks that grew up on the Northside of Chicago or Skokie). Yes, my mother had such a fond experience there that she named me after a bowling alley. So this is how I got my middle name.

Hey, Mom you couldn't have been in a league at ALL-STAR LANES in Skokie on Dempster?

Danny All-Star Friedman

That would have been sweet!