A Very Intelligent Man and Cockroaches

He hopped into the front seat of my vehicle before dawn and it was as though someone had turned on a firehose, releasing an unbroken stream of words spewing from his mouth for the entire 10 minute ride.

In the process I became privy to many tidbits from his life including the fact that he regards himself a “good guy”; the sort of which there are not many left. The bulk of his verbosity, however, was introduced with his statement, “If you really knew me you would be able to tell that I am a very intelligent guy.” I immediately felt privileged to have him in my car! He then demonstrated his intelligence by telling me that there is really nothing wrong with “weed” and that it is actually beneficial. There is a symbiotic relationship between the chemicals in weed and the cells in the brain. The reason, according to my intelligent friend, that it is illegal is because of an effort to control the mexican and black population! Apparently the black and mexican peoples love to smoke weed and so it was regarded as an easy way to put them in jail by making it illegal. All of this information was based upon his research as an intelligent man!

After dropping him off I heard a news report about the El Paso Zoo where they offer a service for Valentine’s Day. You can go on line and for 5.00 you can name a cockroach … and 25.00 can enable you to name a rat. Then you can watch that roach or that rat as it is fed to one of the zoo’s birds or, in the case of a rat, a snake. The idea is that you name one of those creatures after an ex-boy or girl friend, spouse … or just someone who is so un-special to you.

It occured to me that there are some politicians that I would …… no …. no … I won’t go there.