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The life and times of a rodeo clown, part five
 
 
Frank Cotolo
October 16, 2014
 
My rodeo clown work at The Rootin' Tootin' Wildcat Rope and Revolver Rodeo lasted for what seemed to be an eternity. After a while all of the towns where we stopped to perform looked the same and smelled the same and all of them had a gal who lived there that was a lot like Ginger.
 
I met my first Ginger in a small town somewhere east of Hooston, Texas. Not Huston, Hooston. It's a little dump of a place that even Texans don't like, so they leave it off of all the official maps they print. Ginger of Hooston was a template for all the other Gingers. She was thin yet busty, pretty and perky, with an IQ of a marshmallow and skin just as soft.
 
When I began dating the first Ginger I had no idea that this type of gal was going to become a franchise, so I didn't pay much attention to anything but her severe hunger for companionship. Instead, I focused on her quirks. She had more quirks than a beaver in a bowl of spumoni.
 
The night of our first date she said she had never gone out with a rodeo clown and asked me to recite the history of rodeo clowns and name a dozen famous ones before she allowed me to paint her breasts with margarine (she always carried a few sticks in her purse). I made up the history and clown names because I knew she would not go to the library the next day to discover if I lied.
 
All the Gingers had quirks. One Ginger I dated in the Midwest had a penchant for riding her bike with her pajamas on fire. Another Ginger I dated somewhere wore a holster; only a holster. Some Ginger I met in the Deep South swore to me that she learned to kiss by practicing with a St. Jude bobble head. Still another Ginger I dated said she only dated rodeo clowns and then they had to be the kind that would enjoy rebuilding rotary blades in the dark (that was a short date).
 
All the Gingers, as I said, were hungry for companionship and I figured that was why they were so quirky. The Rootin' Tootin' Wildcat Rope and Revolver Rodeo psychologist told me that people who crave companionship often develop habits that take the place of an absence of a relationship with someone who pays attention to them. When I told this to a Ginger in Missouri she disagreed politely, then she began to poke my left testicle with a Phillips-head screwdriver she had hidden in her sleave.
 
All of this made me wonder if I should stop being a rodeo clown or at the least stop dating the same type of gals at every town where we performed. But I continued to work at The Rootin' Tootin' Wildcat Rope and Revolver Rodeo because it was sold to a rich guy who promised that he was going to build The Rootin' Tootin' Wildcat Rope and Revolver Rodeo Traveling University, so all of the performers could get a college degree in something else while still working at The Rootin' Tootin' Wildcat Rope and Revolver Rodeo.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.

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