Not what you thought?

Did you ever volunteer for a job you thought just fit your talents and standing in life only to find out later you misunderstood the scope of your duties?

As the new School Superintendent

in this little Texas town,

he thought it couldn’t hurt a thing

to get his name around.

So when the town folk asked him

if he would work the gate,

he gladly told them that he would.

he didn’t make them wait.

He dressed up nice

and took his place beside the ticket stand,

the Rodeo was just the place

to talk and shake some hands.

“Now the ticket jobs are taken,”

said the man who ran the show.

“We need you to work the gates

for the rough stock, don’t you know?”

There he stood for all to see

at the bucking shoots below,

and, when the cowboys nodded

he’d pull and let them go.

The coffee shop was all a buzz,

he arrived a little late.

But the stories there were all about

how the “Super” worked the gate.

Dennis Price