As promised:
We should put milk in a water tower. Just try it. Just once. Doesn’t have to be an important water tower. Maybe not, for instance, Houston’s water tower. (Wouldn’t it be funny if every city was only allowed one water tower and the big cities’ ones were gigantic?) But whatever town Hickory High was in. Flush the water out, fill it up with milk, see what happens. Heaven on earth? Something curdled?
I think this might be why I’ve never been given the opportunity to be a city manager. I think too big for the public sector.
