sidewalk superintendent

When you’re caring for a baby or toddler in a public place, you will inevitably encounter the kind of person I call a sidewalk superintendent.

Biding its time across from the , its annoyance at anonymity grows with the gawking of every new sidewalk superintendent.

He has signed up for enough lectures to keep him running around the world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground.

NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent and manipulated with barely a hitch.

Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth."