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Once upon a time in a little Southern
town there was a city employee named - well, lets just call him Theo.
Theo worked at the Recreation Department doing maintenance chores and
driving the meals on wheels van. Theo seemed to like his work, but
one day he woke up in a financial crisis. Theo decided to
"retire" from his job so he could cash in on the retirement
money the City had been socking away for him.
Theo had very powerful friends.
They liked it when Theo would go find people to vote, bring them to the
polling places and then tell them exactly how to cast their ballot.
Sometimes, Theo would shout at poll watchers who did not support his
powerful friends, and he would call them names. Sometimes when he
did that, the policemen had to come and make Theo leave. But, Theo
was very good at getting his friends elected and they liked him very
much for that.
As time passed, Theo realized that he
missed his job. He went to the mean old Recreation interim
director and told her to put him back on the payroll. The wicked
woman refused to do that because she thought there was a rule about how
to hire people and she didn't want to break the hiring rules. Theo
explained to her that his powerful friends had promised to re-hire him
after he helped them get re-elected. Still ,the old meanie said
"Nope. You'll just have to work that out with your powerful
friends."
When one of Theo's important friends learned
that the unruly Recreation Director wouldn't give Theo his job back, he
became very angry. He went to the silly woman and threatened to
fire her for not honoring his promise to Theo. The powerful man
was so angry that he yelled and shouted and made ugly faces in front of
other people. Still the Recreation lady wouldn't rehire Theo.
When the grinchy old Recreation director
hired a lawyer to make the powerful man stop yelling at her, the other
powerful men decided to give Theo different job driving a lawnmower
around the graveyard. Sometimes Theo had to do other jobs he
didn't like as much. Once they even asked him to help on the
garbage truck, but he said "NO!" and went home. The
garbage supervisor was very sad that he could not fire Theo for
insubordination - remember, Theo has very powerful friends.
The nice people in the little Southern
town kept paying Theo lots of money and giving him other nice things
like insurance. Even if he sometimes can't drive cars or trucks
because his license gets taken away by the grouchy State Troopers, Theo
can still ride around on his tractor and the nice people in the little
Southern town still pay him because Theo is very good at getting people
elected.
The End.
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