Mold-a-rama

It used to be that if you roamed around the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago you would occasionally come across a mold-a-rama vending machine. And if you dropped a couple of quarters into the slot, the metal mold inside of the machine would make grinding and whirling sounds as it positioned itself under a spout, from which hot, liquified plastic then poured into the mold. And the mold made more grinding and whirling sounds as the hot plastic inside of it solidified. You could sit back and watch this whole process unfold through the transparent shield of the mold-a-rama machine. And after about a minute the mold separated to reveal the precious souvenir it had made for you, which was a plastic bust of Abraham Lincoln. Maybe a souvenir plastic bust of George Washington was also an option. I don’t remember for sure. But the point is that in order to be worthy of being immortalized by a mold-a-rama plastic bust, you had to be not only famous but also revered. All of the U.S. presidents were famous enough to qualify, but only Lincoln (and possibly Washington) was revered enough. I don’t think that a plastic bust of Richard Nixon would’ve sold very well. But I wonder if the mold-a-rama people might’ve been cripple bigots because why not Franklin Delano Roosevelt? He was pretty revered, wasn’t he? The only reason I can think of that the mold-a-rama people must’ve had for deeming Roosevelt unworthy of having his own plastic bust was that he was crippled. His bust was good enough to be on dimes but it wasn’t good enough for them. (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH