Young Derrick was more of an outlaw than an in-law…
Derrick’s mom is currently on the road
tangled up in a relationship with my son’s father-in-law…
This makes Derrick nearly an in-law…
He washed up on the shores of our
Florida winter quarters dead broke and without prospects…
My kids immediately began calling him
“Derelict”…
Derrick is the product of five or six
generations of Showpeople…
A circus and carnival dynasty…
Young Derrick has the potential to
become a great Showman…
Most great Showman have been broke
more often than the ten commandments…
Derrick is well on his way, but has
yet to achieve his full potential…
Derrick seemed to be hopelessly
infatuated with my lovely daughter Katerina…
The operative word here being
hopeless…
She treated him with scathing
contempt, literally busting his chops mercilessly …
She seems to take after her mom that
way…
Cold blooded like the giant snake…
“Why am I not good enough?” he once
asked her, to which she replied, “ I will settle for nothing
less than a millionaire.”…
“I can become a millionaire in the
carnival business.” he declared…
“I’m certain you can, provided you
start as a billionaire.” she stated disdainfully…
My illusions of a possible true
merging of the dynasties were shattered…
Derrick took it like a man…
He suffered endlessly…
He eventually escaped…
I recently played a date in Miami and
there was Derrick managing his grandfathers grab joint…
