Who killed the grass on the "Grassy Knoll?" - Fate Fairies - book version
This entry was posted on 12/13/2011 2:00 AM and is filed under Fate Fairies:Fate Fairies - book version.
As a chemical applicator (in standard Texan colloquial fashion, they called us "Spayers") with the City of Dallas Park Department one of my many tasks was to chemical over-spay winter weeds that popped up on the dormant Texas turf in the winter. However, the caveat is that if you wait too long into the spring of the year you could nip the new crop of turf grass - bad, bad, thing. A boss of mine who was determined to be mayor someday wanted the "Grassy Knoll" in Dealey Plaza, of President John F. Kennedy assassination lore, to look perfect. Not a weed there, need be seen, or some such nonsense, due to all the Kennedy tourists and self anointed sleuths that cased the joint 24-hours a day. A guy I worked with was known to drop a few empty riffle bullet shell casings down by the sidewalk there on the plaza once in a while to rile just up a sucker or two.
Boss-man demanded I kill the weeds on the infamous "Grassy Knoll" in the spring of 1985. Problem being however, it was getting too long into spring and the tips of the perennial Bermuda turf grass were already greening up.
I tried to make my case, but my Boss-man was a Texas A & M Grad and those ol' boys had a reputation of thinking they...., knew it all.
You know the old Texas joke: What do you call a recent Texas A & M graduate after two weeks on a new job?
Answer: The boss!
"Y'all spay'em good, Mr. Keith," Boss-man demanded.
So, with a stiff and permanent weed killer, for three days I nuked the "Grassy Knoll" and Dealey Plaza - it is a bigger place than one might expect. Suffice it to say, two to three weeks later the odious "Grassy Knoll" was dead as...., Kennedy. A month along it was still like Kennedy - deader than dead.
Bigger Boss-man from City Hall happened by Dealey Plaza one day in early May. Word was, the "Big Man" was not too pleased with a dead...., "Grassy Knoll."
Within a few hours of the "Big Man's" assessment and displeasure with said dead grass, my Boss-man and a cobbled-together crew were re-sodding the whole of the "Grassy Knoll."
I was spared the indignity. I resisted saying, "I told you so...., fool!"
Yes, good people, Cool Dadio actually killed the grass on the "Grassy Knoll."
It was one of my finest artistic presentations!
Note: This blog "Fate Fairies" - book version Category is a work in progress. The original vignettes are being edited for book form. Go to the Cooldadiomedia Web site and the Fate Fairies Page for an ordered chronology of the book vignettes (chapters).
