Back in college, I had a roommate and fraternity brother given to joining me in flights of fancy wherein we'd look to top each other by concocting the most ridiculous Utopian solutions to problems we'd see in our everyday lives.
My grandest scheme involved the City of Syracuse helping residents stave off the bitter cold by retrofitting its public fountains to dispense piping hot fondue, rather than water. His had something to do with helping midgets find work by employing them as personal bodyguards, with the upside being that, whenever two people had a beef that might otherwise escalate to violence, they would simply have their midgets battle it out for them -- midget-wrestling being the one spectacle guaranteed to leave even the most jaded on-looker in good cheer.
(I'd blame it all on the pharmaceuticals, but Steve has since miraculously morphed into a respectable insurance attorney and overall upstanding member of society, so I ought not besmirch his reputation.)
In any case, little did we know then that his outlandish plan for world peace would not only anticipate the plot of a well-known Mike Myers franchise by a few years, but it would also prove a precursor to the business model that has allowed Rent-a-Midget to celebrate its one-year anniversary this month!
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