Summer Summer hated it when people told her how they imagined she felt about summer. I bet you love it, some said, while others told her she must hate summer. Because of her name, they reminded her. She fought back. She told people it was just a name and a name was just a word. She asked them things like if they were named Christmas, would that affect how they felt about the holidays? What if their name was Apple Pie? She asked so many people those questions that eventually the name Apple Pie caught on, mostly for girls but not always. As Summer went on, she began to run into people who were named Apple Pie. Peak Apple Pie cane when President Apple Pie Johnson was sworn in. "Be as American as you can, Vote For Apple Pie," her ads read. Summer had long ago stopped including Apple Pie as one of her example-names when people continued telling her how she must feel, because by now there was ample evidence about how being named Apple Pie affected your attitude towards the dessert.