Little Oscar smelled of beer and cigarettes

One of the joys of summer is seeing the wiener-mobile as they travel the country. Some people do not like wieners, but they make a tasty treat at baseball games and summer pick nicks. When I was a kid, I remember the first time the wiener-mobile came to our town. At that time, there really was a Little Oscar who was a little person. He rolled into our town. There was a crowd of kids with the parents standing in the back. The door opened and out popped Little Oscar. I was at the front of the crowd and it sort of pushed us up against him. I was kind of surprised that he smelled of cigarettes and beer. Good times were being had as he rolled down the road apparently. He got the crowd to move back and pretty soon, the parents had stepped away to talk. As soon as he realized they could not hear him, he started to say some pretty salty things to us kids. We all learned some new words that day. Of course, when we tried them out on our parents, we got to taste bars of soap. They wanted to know what hoodlum of the town was teaching us sailor language. As kids, we were pretty truthful. When we told them it was Little Oscar, we got to eat some more soap. It was not good to lie to your parents, they said. Over the years I have met a number of people who worked at Oscar Mayer who all said that Little Oscar had quite a dirty mouth on him. He was told to keep it shut, but he had learned how to teach the kids a lesson, I guess. The people who knew him also said he was very fond of his cigarettes and beer. We actually had a friend named Oscar. We used to sing a rather ribald version of the wiener song about wanting to be someones wiener so all the girls would be in love with me.....