What was the first political event (not protest) that you attended involving The Democratic Party...

[Xavier Breath]

79. Can you post the drawing? It would be interesting to see.

I cannot draw and have always been envious of those who can. As a kid I kept seeing the ad in the back of TV Guide to draw a pirate or a turtle or some damn thing, so I drew one of them (the parrot, maybe?) and sent it in for my chance at valuable cash prizes.

A few weeks later some guy called from Cleveland and wanted my Mom to sign me up for what were probably expensive art classes. I wasn't going to win a prize, but doncha know, as luck would have it I was talented enough to be enrolled at their hallowed institution. My Mom said no and gave him the 1970's equivalent of 'sorry not sorry' and hung up. We were poor, so at the time I could only mourn the chance to lift us up out of poverty through my suddenly considerable artistic skills. Some years later I accepted that I could barely draw a stick figure and all that had really been lost was an opportunity for some rando in Cleveland to grift tuition dollars.