Trouble at the Next
Spot!
By Jeff Murray
Trouble at the next
spot! It was in
Springfield. In order to
stay clean, Harold would
strip down completely
naked inside the
sideshow tent, and we
would take a hose and
spray him off. (He was
the Fat Man on our
show).
His belly hung so low,
that it covered
his genitals, so he kind
of looked like a big
blob rotating in the
middle of the tent while
we hosed him down. Then
he would stay naked and
rotate until the summer
heat dried him off. They
make no towel big enough
to fit around him.
Well, one day after
spraying him down, we
left for town...yes,
again, and upon my
return another call to
the fair office. One of
the ladies from the
committee had been
taking a group of church
women around the grounds
before the fair opened.
Just for fun, they
decided to peek into the
sideshow. Well, to their
utter horror, they got a
gander at a seven
hundred pound naked fat
man rotating in the
middle of the tent. I
guess this caused much
shock and swooning and
the incident was
reported to the
authorities.
Well, I dodged this one
too by simply saying
that I paid for the spot
where the sideshow was
located, making it my
property while the fair
was in progress and the
ladies were
trespassing. It might
not have been legal, but
it worked and they left
us alone after that.
Drawing by JRR
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