A Fairy Tale
A Fairy Tale
To the Editor:
Once upon a time, there was a medium sized, small but growing town located in the middle of the pastoral countryside near a neighboring state and next to a big highway not far from a big city. Some of the people in the town were elected to take care of all of the people there who wanted to live in a diverse, affordable and exclusively restricted community.
The First Superbman was very outspoken and wanted everything to go his way. Whenever things didnât happen as he wished, he got red all over and made everybody nervous by making contorted and funny faces. Most of the time this happened when he was at the townâs Incredulislative Council.
One day before a recent meeting of the Council, the First Superbman decided that the town didnât need a Master Plan that the people could use in developing a big juicy park property, which the state was going to drop onto them for a mere bag of shells. When some of the people went up to the State College and got a free Master Plan offered to the town, the First Superbman angrily rejected it and made a mean face to prove it.
He didnât want to tell the townspeople that he didnât want a park for families. He decided to make up his own secret plan to turn it into an industrial park for lots of people and lots of cars and trucks to create gridlock on the townâs roadways and destroy the idyllic town setting. Just before the Council meeting, he had the police deliver his secret plan to the Council members who thought that they were supposed to keep the plan secret. At the meeting, the First Superbman told them the plan was to remain secret and they could only discuss it in secret until after the meeting when it wouldnât be a secret anymore. Huh?
He then ordered all of the peopleâs representatives to leave the room so that he could police his secret document with the Council without the people knowing what the secret plan really was or if the secret police were aware of what the plan really said. Ah-hah!
Since none of the reporters or the people were there to hear the secret, we will have to wait for the next Incredulislative Council meeting to hear the end of the story and find out if there ever was a real secret worthy of being a secret. Maybe...
Barry J. Piesner - Superb Storyteller
34 Alpine Drive, Sandy Hook                                     November 20, 2000