A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story
“It’s important to remember. That public service. Is a great sacrifice.”
“Good… Good…” Manny Kant said that.
“Most of the government employees I know. Are at their desks. As early as ten every morning. And few of them ever make it home. Before three in the afternoon.”
“Yeah… That’s not so good.”
“I myself. Have given my whole life. To public service. So I know just how much. Sacrifice is required.”
Manny Kant could swear profusely with his eyes, but what he actually said out loud was nothing.
“On any given day. The typical public employee may not know. If the man he has just met. Is a peaceful villager. Or a Taliban irregular.”
“No! Madison, Wisconsin, not Afghanistan.”
“That public employee. Could lose a limb. At the slip. Of. A simple chainsaw.”
“Schoolteachers! Not lumberjacks.”
“That public employee. May have to work. In searing. Heat. For hours on end.”
“Yeah,” said Manny, well beyond frustrated. “That guy works in a foundry.” To me he said, “You wondered about the teleprompter?”
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