“The Mayor is wearing me out”
By JOSH RESNEK
The mayor went into his version of overdrive when he returned from Arizona.
He went from a three-week Aruba-Arizona vacation mode into a Carlo “I’m back in Everett” style work mode.
This was bad news for the Blue Suit – his blue suit, who the mayor loves…to wear that is. Special consideration must be given to what exactly Carlo’s work mode can be compared with. His work ethic is about that of a domesticated gorilla on display in a zoo. All the caged gorilla can do is eat and sleep and mope around looking for something, anything to do.
The gorilla sleeps more than he eats.
The mayor isn’t a gorilla – but he sure acts like one.
The mayor back in Everett was a hard, bulked up fit for the Blue Suit to have to endure.
“Carlo put me on when he got back. He went through the whole routine…fussing with the gel in his hair, a shave and face lotion tossed on, the choice of shirt and tie and then putting me on, pants first, and the suit jacket. Then came the posturing and posing for himself in front of the big mirror in his bedroom in the Abbott Avenue mansion. I can take most things weighing me down when he puts me on, but I can’t stand the way he looks at himself,” the Blue Suit told me.
“He hasn’t taken me off or hung me up in the closet since he got back. He doesn’t sleep with me on. Boy, is he sleeping since he got back,” the Blue Suit said to me.
“Have you watched the mayor’s Facebook video bit about the 311 Department? It’s better than cinema verite mixed with Hollywood comedy,” the Blue Suit asked.
“Oh, yes,” I said.
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