(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson ran into a couple of other Robinsons while cruising around town last week.)

Here's to you,

Mrs. Robinson

While I was looking over the golf magazines at Fred Meyer, Elsbeth sat down on a bench to wait for me. Wonder of wonders, the woman resting on her left was also named Mrs. Robinson.

What are the odds of sitting down next to a stranger with the same name? I told her to go buy a lottery ticket.

They had a great time comparing husbands. Hers does not play golf. Elsbeth's does but has quit keeping score.

Her husband is Donald and he is a retired Seattle Police detective) and they live in Des Moines.

Donald put in 30 years and despaired at seeing too many 13-year-old alcoholics and incorrigible drug users.

Meet Franklyn Robinson

He was signing a petition to get an anti-tax measure on the ballot and I startled him by admitting we had the same last name.

This long-time Burien citizen is 82 years old and says taxes are getting out of hand for people like him on fixed incomes. When he told me he was retired after working 40 years at Allied Truck Bodies, I startled him again when I told him I was a long- time former neighbor of Dick Minnis, owner of Allied who has now retired and sold the business to his son Richie.

Dick was a former baseball player for the Pittsburg Pirates and son Ritchie was a star pitcher for Evergreen High.

Meet Chuck Pavlich

He is the new retail manager at Furney's Nursery on what used to be called Pacific Highway South, just south of what used to be called Seven Gables restaurant-and what used to be called Angle Lake and still is.

Chuck says if you want Martha Washington geraniums you will have a little tougher time this year as the growers had a tough winter. He has plenty of zonals, though.

Chuck has 30 years in the nursery business, moistly in Olympia. And that is not a typo.