I Heart Roger Clark

Roger kept his report PG this morning while interviewing folks at a local diner on tomorrow's elections. One older gentleman, whose name was either Eddie, Woody or Frank depending on who you ask, seemed a little perturbed at having his regular buttered roll and coffee interrupted by the likes of Rog and his pesky mic. Perhaps in protest, Eddie/Woody/Frank - who mentioned more than once that he'd been coming to this particular diner for forty years for breakfast - didn't stop chewing while stating pretty matter-of-factly that the Democrats would take it all. Can't remember exactly how Roger came to use the sanitized expression "chance in heck" when referring to the Democrats. Certainly, Eddie/Woody/Frank didn't seem like the type of guy who would have balked at the use of a little profanity. I sense that E/W/F probably tosses around the h-e-double hockey sticks word a lot, especially when it comes to politics or reporters interrupting his breakfast. Regardless, Rog kept it clean and E/W/F kept on chewing. No one was any the wiser and the censors breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, Rog chatted up a waitress who remarked that she doesn't vote in much the same way that many jaded diner personnel respond to a request for tofu instead of bacon in their BLT. Clark, ever the investigative reporter, probed her on her no-voting stance. "Because there's no one worth voting for" she answered (translation: Do you want cream or cream with that?). This uncomfortable exchange made Eddie/Woody/Frank's breakfast interlude seem positively sweet. And when Rog topped it off with a question about the most popular food on the menu, the spitfire in an apron could barely contain herself: "Gyros, or anything you like." This further degenerated into Roger saying something about the Greeks and the waitress commenting that the Greeks invented diners, blah blah blah. Poor Rog. Tough crowd this Monday morning. I say, fiddlesticks on them.