His Complaint with the Mask

the Hotdog Man’s tale

So . . . the Pandemic was over — sort of . . . and I wanted a Mushroom Dog with special sauce. And I knew just who to go to.

Rosario was a weathered gent, a good-natured entrepreneur we’d all had a good laugh over. He was a combination of “Childlike Stutterer”, “Class Clown” and “Profound Prophet”, we could never tell which trope captured him best. I…