A thoroughly decent proposal

We all know the perils of making plans or promises while drunk - will the plan pass the sobriety test the next morning?

I was propositioned recently while at a party where adult beverages were being served. Not an indecent proposal; in fact, it was a thoroughly decent proposal.

The young lady doing the proposing has had some success working on some local political issues lately (getting beer / wine sales approved in our town, and working on a winning school district campaign). So I was flattered when she told me, apropos of nothing, "If you wanted to run for city council again, I would be your campaign manager." She later assured me she wouldn't make that offer to just anyone.

I have no particular intention to run again, though, so I decided to have a little fun with her good nature. "Does it have to be city council? What about another local office?"

"I don't know. What were you thinking of?"

"Well, there's County Commissioner," I said. "That wouldn't be a much bigger race."

"Hmm, maybe."

"Or," I said, dredging up local political offices from the recesses of my brain, "there's Justice of the Peace. I wouldn't mind being a judge."

"Don't you have to be a lawyer?"

A lawyer standing nearby chimed in. "Actually, JP is the one judicial office in Texas for which no qualifications exist."

Ha! That's my kind of judicial office.

It's nice that someone thinks enough of me (while drinking, at least) to help out with my hypothetical campaign. It's dangerously close, though, to that old political saw of a group of people asking / drafting someone to run for office. So let me say that, for the moment, that I will not seek my party's nomination, if nominated I will not run, and if elected I will not serve.

Although being a judge would be pretty sweet.

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