He was greeted by the mayor, and every taxi driver in town, the journalist with the young wife, and the manager of the car dealership.
He retired, a respected man. Then the doorman at the bar across the street from the fish store didn’t recognize him.
The new mayor, a bachelor, a bachelor with a chip on his shoulder, didn’t say hello, and the taxi driver, didn’t know where he lived.
Kurt stayed home and when his daughter came to visit, the man huddled on the roofline, looking down at his daughter, ”I’m an important man!”
Kurt was a balls to the wall