Print edition. This book contains 250 anecdotes about friends and family, including this anecdote: When Ohio University student Kate Krushinski was in middle school, she had a German teacher whose last name was "Ball." Of course, in middle school many students call their male teachers "Mister" and address them by their last name. However, the German word for "Mister" is "Herr," and the German teacher made his students address him by his first name because he did not want them to call him "Herr Ball."