When I was 7 years old, my mom re-entered college, to finish up her Master's in anthropology. To make ends meet, she took to babysitting kids in the neighborhood after school, at one point watching an incredible 12 kids, on top of her own 3 - it was a lot of fun for us kids, let me tell you.
Anyway, one of the kids she watched, a 10 year old boy named Nicky, was a little glutton. Alright, he wasn't that little, but a glutton, he most certainly was.
One incident sticks out, and is a cherished family memory. Mom had cooked hot dogs for all of the kids one day, and she set up our dining room table as a sort of self-serve buffet - we lined up, grabbed a dog, some chips, and a glass of kool-aid, then proceeded outside to eat. As the rest of us kids filed through the line to get our food, young Nicky became impatient, dashed out of line, ran to the hot dogs, and started stuffing them into his mouth, one after another.
Needless to say, it made for an interesting afternoon (especially when Nicky's mom came to pick him up!), and I'll never be rid of the image of Nicky, hands full of hot dogs, hot dogs hanging out of his mouth, bits of dog falling to the floor as he chewed furiously, all the while attempting to stuff even more meat into his already crammed mouth - he even had hot dogs stuffed into his pockets!
I've never known for sure why Nicky did it, but I think it comes down to simple selfishness and greed.
I was reading today's Top 10 Conservative Idiots (one of my weekly pleasures), and I read #3 about Bush. The last line reads:
We can't pull the troops out now - not while there are still billions of taxpayer dollars to be stuffed randomly into the pockets of Bush's corporate cronies.
And that image of Nicky, madly stuffing hot dogs into his mouth, grabbing up as many as he could hold, fiercely guarding the plate against anyone who attempted to grab the hot dogs away from him, the strange look of pleasure on his face during the entire incident, came exploding into my mind.
I wish I was an artist, for if I were, I would draw a picture of George Bush doing with the Treasury what young Nicky did with the hot dogs. It is, after all, such a fitting image...at least in my mind's eye...
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