I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Remember that Ronald Regan quote?  Neither do I.  probably because I was only 8 months old when he said it.  Not really sure why he said it either.  I really just wanted a quote about alligators to open with, and i couldn't think of any on my own.  So naturally I Googled (and now my spell check knows that Googled is a word).  I got this quote.  Maybe some time in the future I will look up the reference to this quote, give my readers a little learnin'.

I look for an alligator quote not because my sister is back to school at Gainesville, but because the gators have made their way to Astoria (29th Street and Newtown Avenue to be precise)!  Apparently there was a gator found chilling under a car in yesterday's rainstorm not too far from my apartment.  It is speculated that the critter had crawled out of the sewer, while authorities guess that someone had abandoned their illegal pet once it had gotten too big to care for.  I suspect that the world is coming to an end, and this is just a sign of the plague of beasts (not really, but that'd be insane).  It was just a tiny gator, only measuring 18 inches, but still, imagine being the person who owns that car.  Maybe that day you were wearing sandals and you were standing at your car sorting through a bag of some sort, while this little guys sees your toes as something yummy to devour.  Talk about alligator shoes, right?  According to records, in 2003, there was a 4 foot alligator found roaming in a Queens park.  THAT is not something I'd like to encounter on a casual stroll.

Sometime in the future:
I Googled the source of the Regan quote.  Still can't fully find the context, but it was for a White House reception for the Women Appointees of the administration on February 10th, 1982.  I still don't fully get it.