I imagine the job of being a Mayor would be pretty boring. I envision a lot of meetings. I envision a lot of budgeting. I envision a lot of longing to slit your wrists from the boredom.
So, when my mom became Mayor of our hometown at the start of the year, I wasn’t expecting any stories from her to be all that interesting, but I was pleasantly surprised when she sent me the following email yesterday. And what it made it even more delicious was that it is about someone who was in my class throughout junior high and high school. Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent.
Well, this week is starting off with a bang! I really am dreading the rest of the week now!
I got a phone call at 3 am about John Doe’s dogs barking and keeping the neighborhood awake. This has been going on for a year or so now and we’ve had numerous talks with John Doe – but he won’t do anything! We’re going to have to start citing him; but it’s embarrassing because he’s a jailer at the law center and works for the county. You’d think that he’d do the right thing, wouldn’t you?
When I called the law center to report the dog issue, I was told that the recycling center was on fire and was guessed to be a total loss! I drove by this morning and it looks pretty bad indeed!
Then, at 4:15 am I got another call about John Doe’s dogs – they were still barking and the complaining citizen said that if they had to be awake, they were going to make sure I was awake, too. Well, John Doe is also a volunteer fireman, so he was out fighting the fire and couldn’t do anything about his dogs!
Can’t win for losing!!
Pray for me!
Who knew being a Mayor of a small town in the Midwest could be so interesting!
There are three reasons I am glad my mother ended up deciding to run for Mayor.
For starters, it is keeping her busy and active since retiring, which is something I was worried about. I didn’t want her to become inactive. Also, she spent well over thirty years as a single mother raising three children. It was high time she focused on her own life and doing something for herself. She’s more than earned that right.
But most of all, now I get stories like this delivered directly to my inbox!