I was on the road with comedian Troy Hammond and I remembered a story from 1st grade that made me chuckle. Yes, some odd conversations occur after six hours in a car. I had a slow kid in my class at the time. He was at least six inches and 20 lbs. bigger than every other classmate, due to good genes…or the fact he was nine. We always made him be the bad guy when we played superheroes.
One day, I saw a kid named Mitchell who had an awful rat tail (Appalachia, mid-80’s, what else do you expect?) run up to ol’ Ronnie. “I’m Superman! You’re Lex Luthor!” He then made a heat ray vision noise and exclaimed, “I win!” Ronnie grabbed him, tossed him off the Big Top which was 15′ in the air, breaking Mitchell’s collarbone. “Lex Luthor wins!” Yes, Ronnie – sometimes Lex wins. Especially when he is already growing hair in new places and Superman still has a night light.