The congressman was a SC.

[ominousoat]

So I've debate over this one for a while. I'm hesitant to give clues as to my state, but I figure it's not a huge deal. So here it is: I'm in Nebraska, the Western portion. Anyhow, now that that's over, here's the story.

The name Tom Osborne is probably only familiar to those who are in the area, or have followed college football really closely. Anyhow, for those that are uninformed, Mr. Osborne was the coach of the Huskers, and is pretty much God to the football lovers around here. When he finally retired, Tom threw his hat into the political ring, became a congressman, and was a gubernatorial candidate not to long ago. Whew, okay, so then, when I was working at the gas station, I met this deity in the flesh (or avatar?) one day...

It wasn't too busy, we had a line of about 2 to 3 people on each register. Everything ran a bit slower because since it was a small town there was a bit of small talk between the cashier and customer. Normal, right? Well, then Tom Osborne walked in the doors, with a etherial glow about his person and a saintly smirk on his face, he waltzed in, looked around for his red carpet, and reveled in the adoring gazes from everyone in the building. Honestly, there was chatter like

"OH MY GOD! That's TOM OSBORNE!"

or

"What's HE doing here? WOW!"

etc...

Anyhow, he goes to the back, grabs some sodas (pops, rather), and saunters up to the front. However, the line wasn't moving quite fast enough for his highness, and after five minutes of standing in line he, honestly I'm not making this up, tosses his sodas on the ground, yells "I *REFUSE* to wait this long!" and huffs out the door, leaving about 8 lost votes in his wake.

We were hoping so much that he would just walk out with the sodas, and then call the cops on him, but alas...no. Anyhow, I just figured I would offer one of my favorite SC stories, enjoy!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

In my experience, the congresspeople are the absolute worst. What a bunch of entitled, self-inflated tools.

[ahanix1989]

<as if to a baby>
aww, poor congressman's limo out of soda?
</as>

[ArenaBoy]

Politicians can either be very polite or they can be huge SCs. My mom has been on both ends. The mayor of my city is known as the hip-hop mayor and he is banned from my arena for a good reason. My mom works in the owner's private suite and many big shots come in. What the mayor did to get banned was abuse his privileges too much. What he would do is ask for 4 tickets. 1 for him, 1 for his wife, and 2 for his kids. What he never told us was that he would bring in bodyguards, nannies, and the like. When he did this the 1st time my mom simply asked what he was doing. The mayor would state that this was his bodyguard, his wife's bodyguard, his kids bodyguards, and his kids nanny. This would be about 10 people or so. He did this so many times and after we called him out he decided to be a jerk and right then and there the owners stated that if they want to come to basketball games they can buy the tickets themselves.

His wife is a bit of a jerk also, having parking spots blocked off by her security force in a town I go to. Honestly she and her husband are big jerks.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

My dad's a cook in a salmon fishing place. They fish, throw it back out, etc...

His bosses AND customers are company presidents and even a Senator! (Shout out to Senator Angus, yo!)

Surprisingly, the old ones are very nice to him, chat with him and even when they sound scary, they actually want to compliment him. They're really nice old chaps.

It's the young ones son-of-so and so types that gets on my poor dad's nerves. Food's not there quick enough, it's not what they wanted, they trash the room they sleep in, nag nag nag nag nag.

There's the important people, and then there's the people that they think they're important.

[ominousoat]

Well, the funny thing is, around here every politician has to play the "I'm a good, simple, down-to-earth, friendly, familyman kind of guy" card to get elected, and his not adhering to his projected image was amusing.

As a kharma update though, he lost the gubernatorial race by 5%, probably all people that met him in a service industry situation.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

A bit off-topic, but still about political leaders being SC's. I found out our state's legislation is set to give themselves a 26% raise on our dime. Lovely!

And here I sit lucky to get a quarter every review period.

[ominousoat]

But man.......never thought I would see the day where he was not spoken of in God-like terms in the land o' corn.

In my defense I'm being very tongue-in-cheek; however, he's certainly very close to being considered god-like around here...it's sad.

I have to admit I'm pretty surprised myself, since I figured he could disclose a penchance for human flesh or hitler and still be elected...