“The World’s Tiniest Woman” - Bobby the Superboy - Two Truths and a Lie - VOTE NOW!!

The Minnesota State Fair takes place near the end of every summer and is one of the largest in the country. I used to always go with my family. My mom loved it. It was a big deal to her but to me it always signified the end of the summer and beginning of the school year, which was something I despised.

I was sixteen and just about to begin my sophomore year at in high school the first time I attended the fair alone, with my friends instead of my mom. I went with a group of five, myself, two other guys, and two girls. We had pint bottles of Hot 100 that one of the guy’s older brothers had bought for us and we got drunk fairly quickly. Mostly we hung around an area of the fair called the midway. This was where all the games and rides were, as well as the carnival like attractions. One of those attractions was a freak show. It took place in a tent and out front of that tent were painted posters of the snake lady, the lobster boy, and other so-called freaks. There was also a barker that stood out front and talked non-stop about the wonders inside.

Now, the freak show was one thing my mom never let me do at the fair. So I had decided even before we got there that I wanted to go, but it was expensive, like seven bucks, and most of my friends didn’t want to waste their money. My friend Heather finally agreed to go with me though, and we paid and entered. Heather was possibly the drunkest of any of us and laughed non stop in the tent as we walked through a maze of not very impressive freaks, who looked very fake. Then we came to the world’s tiniest woman. They had her in small ring with hay on the ground that kind of looked like a kiddie swimming pool. She sat on a tiny chair reading a book and looked mean and old and she refused to interact with anybody as they passed. So I dared Heather to try and steal her. Heather was pretty hardcore, and totally the kind of person who would steal a freak and after some encouragement she grabbed the woman by the shoulders and started to pick her up, but when she did the tiny woman screamed and we got kicked out. I heard recently that Heather is now a hairdresser at Supercuts.