A Fairy Tale......As Best As I Remember It

                    OK....the fairy tale goes something like this....a man brags that his daughter can weave gold from straw. The king hears about it and demands that the daughter weave some gold for him....or die. The daughter has no idea what to do but an imp....a devilish or demonic type of character.....comes out of nowhere and appears to her....and in exchange for something of value of hers....a quid pro quo....you scratch my back I'll scratch yours type of thing....he weaves the gold. The king is thrilled for the riches but wants more....(don't we all?) He demands of the daughter that she weave even more straw into gold....and the imp appears again....and again the daughter gives up another valuable possession....and the imp again weaves the straw into gold. Now the king is delirious in his greed....kind of like us not that long ago....before the pandemic.....and demands even more straw woven into gold.....but this time he says that if she does weave the gold that he will make her his queen. Well....the imp appears again but the daughter has nothing more of value to give....kinda like Marco Rubio who gave up everything he had of value....so the imp demands the first child after marrying the king....or maybe a job in the King's cabinet. He weaves the gold....the daughter and the king marry....there is a child....the imp returns and wants the child....the daughter does not want to give the child up....the imp gives her three days....and an offer.....if she can find out what his....the imp's....name is....he will let her out of the deal. The queen assigns a messenger to travel everywhere in the land to find out the imps name but cannot find out what it is.....then finally he stumbles across the imp himself....doing his thing and bragging and singing a song....and in that song he mentions his own name which the messenger hears and tells the queen the imp's name....Trumpelstiltskin....or something like that. Then the imp is furious and blames the devil for telling her his name....and stomps out but in his anger he stumbles and that is the end of him.