Come to think of it, I knew two guys in high school who were twins and named Ronald and Donald. They went by their middle names, Ashley and Gene. But everybody knew about it.
I had a friend called Gus. His mother let it slip that his real name was Constantine. He threatened me with consequences if I told anybody. Consequences! I never talked.
You people don’t understand male-female relationships in Cranksville. She wants to buy the salsa, but she doesn’t want to be responsible for it, because it’s expensive. So she tricks Jeff into taking the responsibility. Then she smirks at him behind his back for being so easily manipulated.
In Switzerland, they have a festival when they let the cows out of the barn after they’ve been there all winter. It’s a lot like this, except cows are bigger.
Batiuk knows that, but he thinks his readers are too dumb and ill-informed to know it. And he’s mostly right.