Salt of the Earth

The year was 1984. This was the day Peter would surrender the last vestige of his symbolic protest against the Establishment. An avid hippie in his youth, Peter had long ago, little by little, over two decades moved into the mainstream of corporate quagmire. Leaving behind his social concerns and socialistic ideology, Peter had for quite some time had a healthy bank account and assets to be envied by the established elite.

You see, Peter remembered hearing as a child, “You are the salt of the earth.” One day as he worked behind the counter of the local movie theater, he over salted the popcorn. Moviegoers by the scores returned to the concession area for soft drinks. When he observed the phenomenon, Peter began to over-salt the popped delicacy routinely and on purpose…and he raised the price on soft drinks. Astounded, he realized that he could not out price his thirsty customers’ willingness to pay exorbitant amounts of cash. Who would have believed it? Movie patrons were not only willing, but standing in line, to spend $5 for a fifty-cent drink and another $5 for a fifteen cent bag of Peter’s salty snack!

But today would be the day that Peter would surrender his thinning gray scraggly ponytail for a chic trendy haircut to compliment his custom Armani suit. Yes, my fellow movie fans, you know this gentleman best by his popular moniker—Salt Peter.

(Note: I realize you found this article confusing given my usual blogs written about my thoughts. This is just a fun piece I wrote one day. While doing some research, I came across the term "saltpeter" (feel free to google it) and this whole funny concept just came to me. Call it creative writing. You've heard of that, right?)