Chigger was a pillar of his community. To miss one of his parties would be unthinkable. His parties were always the result of some new Chigger based achievement, and therefore they happened irregularly and on short notice. That added to the fun.
In addition, Roxanne, Chigger’s wife (or girlfriend, neither was clear on this) insisted on inviting “everyone”. To her, each get together was a chance to feed the masses.
The last party had been several months ago. Chigger and his friend Whacker had come into possession of a bison. How this extra-legal activity had come together was a secret, which meant everyone in Chigger’s circle knew all the details. Roxanne had declared the evidence should be eaten lest the Feds incarcerate half the town. Chigger shrugged and fired up the grill. That had been a fine day!
The party before that had involved a live lynx loose in Chigger’s trailer. And who could forget the legendary party that led to The Dishwasher Incident?
Chigger hadn’t yet explained the reason for the current party, but the rumor was he’d finally captured a Bigfoot sighting. Chigger’s extensive network of game cams would impress the Stasi’s spy operation and everyone universally agreed that if there was a Bigfoot, Chigger would be the one to find it.
Roxanne and Chigger were the perfect couple. His life’s work was to roam the world breaking game laws. Her’s was to cook virtually anything Chigger dragged home and make sure it was distributed to “those in need”. Admittedly, nobody in Chigger’s group was in danger of starvation but virtually all would be defined by bureaucrats from afar as “desperately poor”. (In their eyes, they were “just people” and bureaucrats were the ones deserving of pity; but that’s a discussion for another time.) Roxanne’s explanation was roughly “Something, something, Jesus & God, give thanks. Here’s an elk steak.” Chigger’s was “Something, something, liberty & Merica. Elk is delicious.”
The upshot of this was that Chigger and Roxanne’s single wide was hosting a rocking party almost before the RFD finished “saving” the convenience store’s foundation.
