Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #23

     I told a Navy Seal about being screamed at by men in authority once upon a time. It was a fearful situation as they had guns and I didn't, and they were unhinged, but deliberately so, trying to frighten me. I was quivering with rage, not fright though. If only they had been man enough for a fair fight! Still, I was upset about the incident, feeling like I had come out being the loser. The unflappable Seal merely said, "I would have found it funny -them being all so upset." Spoken like a true Seal!
     Next time I am not only going to find it funny, but they will be the loser because I am going to say, "I'm so sorry to see you upset and screamy (and so pitifully unprofessional and unmanly)."
This vignette is what I will keep in mind if there is any strident righteous racism at the Selectboard meeting tomorrow.
     I heard a black man on the Tom Some-Socialist Show this morning saying he wanted white people in America to suffer for the slavery they put the black people in. I said to him - he didn't hear me, thank God!- "Go ahead! Dig 'em up and punish them." How ignorant! He didn't utter a peep about the 39 million people still in slavery worldwide. I wonder why.
     How is the rest of Brattleboro faring without McDonald's? I tried going to the Co-op which is most pleasant and refined but was paying almost four dollars for coffee and a plain bagel. My budget can't support that so I'm turning to Wendy's which is a disaster. I've ordered coffee -just coffee- and you'd think it was Baked Alaska. First time, they had run out of half and half. At least they carry it; McCafe can't seem to bring themselves to do that. Today, they had to brew coffee. I went to my table, paid a bill and addressed an envelope. I then went back. They had forgotten the order. Hardee's is only one building away from McDonald's. You'd think they would have learned something about McDonald's system and copied it by now. They are in another world, a slow, constantly snagged up one. But their dollar cup of coffee with half-and-half is better - when you get it the day after ordering it!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, Vt. 05301, 352-359-0850