[phone rings]

“John?”

“Yeah?”

“This is… (insert about 20 seconds of description/disclaimer).  Can you do us a favor?”

“Uh…”

“The TV station is coming to our (school/office/whatever) and they want to focus on Insert event}. Will you draw on our erasable board to give them something to film!?”

“Do I have to bring my own markers?”

“Nope!  We have some.”

And so…this cheesy picture of Joe Foss’s F4F Wildcat and a wonderfully history-minded teacher made it on TV/Social Media.

It’s really one of my best quick-sketches…but rumor has it, it didn’t last much longer than a few hours.