Raise your hand if you're the mayor!
Raise your hand if you're the mayor!
<--me
I've been serving as city councilman for the last couple years here, and now, through a series of unfortunate events, I am being appointed mayor of Centerville. I am the .1% (because Centerville is a town of 1000). And, as my first official act, I'm leaving town for a week on vacation as soon as the meeting where I am sworn in is over. On the plus side, the small mayor's office is now additional storage/display space for Transformers!
It's been interesting being involved in local politics, and it's given me a much better appreciation of what actually goes on behind the scenes. Turns out that sewers don't just grow naturally under houses!
So if you hear in the next couple weeks that Centerville, South Dakota, has been reduced to a smoking crater, you'll have at least some idea of why.
I've been serving as city councilman for the last couple years here, and now, through a series of unfortunate events, I am being appointed mayor of Centerville. I am the .1% (because Centerville is a town of 1000). And, as my first official act, I'm leaving town for a week on vacation as soon as the meeting where I am sworn in is over. On the plus side, the small mayor's office is now additional storage/display space for Transformers!
It's been interesting being involved in local politics, and it's given me a much better appreciation of what actually goes on behind the scenes. Turns out that sewers don't just grow naturally under houses!
So if you hear in the next couple weeks that Centerville, South Dakota, has been reduced to a smoking crater, you'll have at least some idea of why.
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As I understand it, the job of an American mayor is basically that everytime the local sheriff/investigative journalist/maverick scientist comes up to you and goes "We have to cancel the parade because of the shark/plague/storm/volcano!" you say "No, we're going on with this parade, I'm sure nothing will go wrong!".
You then die in a horrible hoist by his own petard sort of way. Correct?
You then die in a horrible hoist by his own petard sort of way. Correct?
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That's actually eerily close.
Unfortunately there is very little pomp or circumstance with the office, and no ceremonial clothes. (Yet. You've inspired me to start something new.) In fact, my actual chair in the council chambers will be exactly like the wooden one I'm in now as a councilman, just at the head of the table instead of the side. The official gavel is two dowel rods glued together, and I have the feeling that if I ever really used it, the handle would snap and the mallet part go flying (which, now that I say it out loud, would be rather effective).
Unfortunately there is very little pomp or circumstance with the office, and no ceremonial clothes. (Yet. You've inspired me to start something new.) In fact, my actual chair in the council chambers will be exactly like the wooden one I'm in now as a councilman, just at the head of the table instead of the side. The official gavel is two dowel rods glued together, and I have the feeling that if I ever really used it, the handle would snap and the mallet part go flying (which, now that I say it out loud, would be rather effective).
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