The Mitch Clinton Primer
Allow me to introduce you to Mitch Clinton. Mitch was my crew leader for most of my six months as a travelling door to door encyclopedia salesman. When not selling, Mitch was one of the crudest, rudest, most foul-mouthed and dirty-minded people I've ever known. Now, I mean that in the nicest possible way. He was actually a pretty decent guy: lots of fun, occasionally quite funny, a pretty good friend, honest and reliable about money matters, and occasionally endearingly protective of his crew. It's just that he was a pig. For example, when the five of us would share a motel room with a single bathroom, Mitch was not into taking turns. If several people needed to urinate at the same time, as far as Mitch was concerned, they could simply gather around the toilet and do their business. Now, I suppose if we were from a country with mandatory military service, this might have been less shocking, but to me this was so uncivilised as to be not only incon...