At the time, I was unaware of my station in life. I did understand there was a political structure to the world. Being prepubescent, I tried to envision myself a score or two from then. What did I want to be? A fireman, a doctor, etc.
Grandpa Sid was an attorney, and, at the time I was trying to follow Mr. Guy Kawasaki's advice at a Stanford graduation speech.
Graduates, milk your parents for as long as you can. Parents, cut your children off as soon as possible.
Sid, at a ripe old 44, began attending a Boston law school in the second decade of last century. He was still 15 years from squirting my mom into my grandmother's vagina.
So at the tender age of my early teens, during the mid 1970s, I decided I wanted to become a United States Senator.
I AM SOOO SORRY.
You (plural) asked me a question. I needed an answer. That's all I had at the time. So I stuck with that story.
Fast forward more than two scores, and I really, really don't want to go into politics. Most importantly,
NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE.
I tootled around your lovely continent for years. I met two. Seriously, two people who expressed support for my political aspirations. And this is the best part. Both of them verbalized their enthusiasm only after I said I had no desire for political office.
