Meet Beloit resident Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer, yes that is her true legal name (Sawyer was her ex-husband's surname), a school teacher with a master's degree in higher education administration.
"Every single class, the teacher is taking attendance out loud, and as they slowly get down through the J's, I'm just like here it comes. 'Marianna? Marijuana?' And all the students turn to see who it is," she said.Later in life, it wouldn't get any easier when she tried to order tickets over the telephone or fill out paperwork. People thought she was joking, or they wanted to hit her with 20 questions about why she was called that.
Not that it's anywhere on the same scale, but I certainly can relate to having an unexpected name.