In Hooker Oklahoma we stopped for lunch and noticed we could have bought a T-shirt that read: “All my friends are Hookers.”  This could have been an interesting souvenir to bring back to Steinbach. Given my first name that might have been problematic. The city is named after a cattle foreman John “Hooker” Threlkeld who came there in 1873.  Interesting also that his first name was John. It’s a good name of course, but has some uncomfortable connotations. But “Hooker” and “John” together amplify the weirdness. The small city (town by my standards) had embraced the weirdness by making their city motto “It’s a location, not a vocation“. As of 2000, there were 1,788 people calling Hooker home. I don’t know how many Johns they have.