No Politics Today

Hi, all. I read a friend's blog yesterday and after laughing my fool head off, I have to make some comments. By tomorrow I'll have to comment on Romney-Gingrich, so I'll take this short opportunity to bring a laugh or two. Tana Essary wrote about some former workplaces being filled with "colorful people." Then she posted a photo of a male peacock. I have to say...wonderful! I,too, have known some extremely "colorful" folks in my life, if on a different level. But the peacock image was right on.

Let's see. First, there were the policemen I used to work with. Honestly cool guys, 90% of them, but of course we had some arrogant men whose chests were so puffed up they threatened to burst the buttons off their uniforms. Like one guy who lasted about one month on the job because he was convinced that he was "God's gift to women." Not. One other guy got fired because he kept making jokes about donuts. Then there was one guy who got fired because he got lost every time he went on a call. Cute, huh?

Then there was the Federal Parole officer who loved to make wine in his spare time. I have it on good authority that his basement was...well...interesting. He was a great guy. But definitely colorful.I used to cook with his wine, but drink it? No chance.

My family was "colorful"- most of them gone now. Dad, for example, was convinced that we could re-elect Ronald Reagan to office after his second term if we just put him in as vice president and then got rid of whoever was the president. Interesting concept, don't you think? I'm sure he meant for someone to "step down" after the election, but um, that was my Dad.

Of course at this point in my life- as a writer-- I have oodles of colorful folks. At one writer's meeting a couple of weeks ago we had a former Madame from San Francisco. You like? She was most assuredly colorful.

But my absolute favorite is my current friend, Bobby Wilhelm, a former drug kingpin from North Idaho. His list of relatives and their friends beats all for "colorful." One friend of the family was the Sheriff in Shoshone County Idaho and was indicted for racketeering (they declared a mistrial)huh, imagine that; one friend of his Grandfather was connected to a Teamster's Union scandal in 1957; his Grandfather was arrested numerous times for bootlegging and/gambling. The deeper we get into his life and that of his family's friends and relatives, the more "colorful" it gets. You'll have to read the book "BobbyConvict" when it comes out to find out more.