Village Idiot 2012

“Village Idiot” Election April 1.

Each year, Story’s “town elders” a/k/a tavern regulars convene to review ballots and select a new “Village Idiot”. This year will be no exception.

This is our tribute to the fermentation process. As in years past, you may cast your ballot(s) in the Tavern at any time before Midnight on March 31. Anyone who has been a Story customer is eligible to vote for, and to be elected to, this esteemed position. Just like our Chicago brethren, you may vote as early, and as often, as you wish.

The gene pool runs shallow in these parts, and thus, we have been blessed with an abundance of qualified candidates. Meet some of our past “Village Idiots”:

• A Story bartender who set her own hair on fire as she was attempting to tame her coiffure with hairspray (the unfortunate incident did not convince her to quit smoking).
• A Story employee who snorted cayenne pepper (mitigating circumstance: this venturesome California native came of age in the 1960’s).
• A tavern regular who felt “nature call” while hiking in the woods. She conducted basic hygiene with a leaf. . .of poison ivy.
• A tavern regular who somehow managed to run over her own foot with her truck.
• A Story employee who, while learning to hunt with a bow and arrow, brought down his own Chevy Cavalier.
• A bar patron (with an engineering degree from Purdue, no less) who filled a kiddie pool on a wood deck at his house. The weight of the water (8.3 lbs./gallon x 500) caused the deck to separate from the back of his house and collapse into a heap of twisted lumber.
 

Ballots are available right now in the Story Inn's venerable tavern.