A funny political oops I was a part of today.
 

I live in a small town. The mayor of my town lives right across the street from me. I have known him for a while and we are friends. I go out to get my mail today and he is in his garage moving a few things. I walk over and give him a hand moving a few heavy items. Afterward we are sitting around in the garage having a cold beer and shooting the shit. A guy walks up. He is wearing khaki pants and a nice shirt. He introduces himself by saying, "My name is Nick I'm running for mayor and was hoping I could count on your vote."

My neighbor introduces himself as the current mayor and Nick immediately turns red faced with embarrassment. He didn't even know what the current mayor looked like, where he lived or anything like that. Like I say, its a small town so it's not like it is a big secret who the guy is or where he lives.

My neighbor invited him to sit, have a beer and talk about the campaign and the city, but the guy apologized and hauled ass out of there. It was kind of funny.

what kind of beer did your town's mayor serve you?

Widmer Hefeweizen. A very tasty local brew (not local to my town, but to Portland which is about 30 miles away)

Another F'n Teababbing, Palin Loving, Dumbass no doubt.

I have no idea what party the guy is from. Since the current mayor is a republican I would assume the guy is either a democrat or an independent, but honestly until that moment I had never heard of him and I know nothing about him.

Hahah.. funny one.

Awww...you had an opportunity to REALLY fuck with him there. After figuring out he had no idea who the mayor looked like, your friend shoulda went "...just kidding!" Had him sit down and talk everything over with him. Maybe ask stuff about his life, etc. or better yet, try to get him drunk or at least more open with beer and open up about sort of intimate details of his life.

Then, if there's ever some sort of public debate where your friend knows this guy will show up, make sure your friend doesn't set up any posters/photos with his picture, have your friend show up first and have him sort of obscure his appearance around the time the other guy is to show up...then when the guy is close by, he can have one of those sort of "here's Johnny!" moments with a sort of smile that everyone else will think is a normal smile but the other guy will think is a psycho smile, and watch him really run, lol. Then your friend looks at the crowd, shrugs and says "...well guess that means I'm still mayor!" and everyone has a hearty laugh while the guy is busy hauling ass out of town.

Probably couldn't possibly work since your friend probably intro'd himself by name, but would be hilarious.

Yeah, now that you mention it, it probably was a great chance to pull a good prank on the guy.

It would have been classic to get the guy drunk and get some pictures of him laying in the yard or something.

I'm not sure if there is a public debate happening or not, but if there is it would have been just as good to just pretend to be a citizen, talk to the guy, find out his entire platform then be able to show up to the debate ready to knock down everything the guy says.

After he was gone I told my buddy that if he comes to my house and knocks on the door and doesn't remember me I'm going to try to keep a straight face and tell him that for $50 I will guarantee him my vote and the votes of five of my friends. I wonder how he will respond.

did the guy go to other houses? or did he come from a house?

sounds shady

He was walking down the sidewalk came up to my neighbor's house. When he continued on his way he continued down the road as if he were heading to the next house. I left my neighbors about 10 minutes later and as I walked across the street I saw him up the road, but I couldn't tell if he was still going door to door.