little people.....

ok, so somebody should have warned me ahead of time.......as i was rounding the corner in my thursday health dept location......i spied...a dwarf.........gentle readers....i was ever so glad that this little person was walking away from me rather than toward me.....as i would have been devastated for her to have seen the look of surprise on my face........one doesn't see many dwarves these days......i am not sure that i have ever seen one up close......and it turns out that she is the daughte rof the facility director....her only child.....and she has a job and drives a specially equipped car.....and has a basically normal life..... wow......considering that i spend my days talking to people who have proportionate body parts but not the sense to find or keep a job......nor feed their families adequately, nor...well you know what i mean.......i am not sure how this could have been gracefully brought up......welcome to _______, by the way, you might just see a dwarf from time to time.......i guess that wouldn't be any more polite than to say nothing.......the official website of the little people of america informed me that they prefer to be called little people rather than dwarves or midgets...........and that membership is this group may only be offered to people 4 foot 10 inches or smaller......everyday there is something new to learn..........