Yesterday night I helped my elderly neighbor with her tablet computer. I was wearing a black cadet cap. I sat down at her kitchen table and she asked me if I wanted a beer. I said yes. When she handed me my beer she looked intently at me and out of nowhere she said…

“I know who you look like!”

“Who?” I had no idea where this was going.

“Fidel Castro!”

I’m Jewish, middle-aged, and I have big, bushy beard that’s gone white. It’s a Karl Marx-like beard but my face doesn’t look much like his. If she had said “Jewish Fidel Castro!” - I might have laughed. I’ve had the beard for years and she’s seen me in dark cadet caps before. I guess you could say I vaguely look like Marx if he had ever worn a black cadet cap and a black henley shirt. I had no idea what to say so I said “Oh. Show me the problem you’re having connecting to the internet…”

Why she mentioned Castro and why yesterday - I don’t know. She’s a liberal. I few years ago I told her I was a socialist and she had no interest. And when I speak to her - it never comes up. She doesn’t mention it and I don’t mention it because she’d never understand my hatred of the democrats and of electoralism.