My Brush with Greatness

On vacation this week and for a variety of reasons, we didn't go anywhere special- just sort of hung out at home and took day trips- to places in the area we'd never been to but always meant to. Today, my son and I hit the Southwick Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts- about 90 minutes southwest of Boston. It was a cold rainy day and that kept the crowds down and the extra stuff- rides and shows- was not operational so it was just animals. It was open and easy to see the critters (including a number of large ones) - who seemed active and content.

While viewing the chimp exhibits and later wandering through the deer park, I noticed what I thought was a familiar face but I couldn't place him. A man in his 50-60s with a bunch of kids and others. I think he saw me staring at him because he later gave me a clue. The fallow deer, including some antlered bucks, were a bit aggressive around him and he had to gingerly ward them off as he was putting quarters in the machines to get corn for his young charges to feed them. I was behind him and he was laughing and looked at me and said something like "Now I know how Jack Hanna feels." It was the Late Show's own Biff Henderson .