Make A List

While on a business trip, a man came to a small Southern town. He decided to look up an old college chum who held the office of Mayor. It being Saturday afternoon, the traveler asked a gas station attendant if he knew where he might find the Mayor. The attendant replied, “That no good so-and-so? He’s probably off fishing, just like every other day.” Then the man went to the local drugstore and asked the clerk if she knew where he might find the Mayor on a Saturday. “That bonehead?” she replied, “I wouldn’t tell you even if I knew.” After several more attempts produced similar hostile answers, the man decided to go to City Hall on the chance that there might be someone there to direct him to his friend’s house. The building was almost empty, except the mayor’s office. There the man found his old friend, hard at work. “I’m here at my desk seven days a week,” the mayor said. “But why…