Monday, September 14, 2009

The Yard Is Not Enough!


Mom Says:

M’s voice on the phone sounded hurried and irritated. “Well, Musashi,” she said, “I hadn’t planned on bringing you in again so soon, but we have a situation and we need you. How soon can you get here?”

“O boy! A sitchooayshun? I be rigt ther!”

He caught the next flight to London like he’d been traveling all his life. The only trouble he had was in the line at security, when the guard kept insisting that Musashi take his shoes off, and Musashi kept insisting that he didn’t have any shoes to take off.

“But I’m a kittee person. We doesn’t wayr shooz!”

“If yoah a pet, then you gotta go in a pet carriah. If yoah a passenjah, then you gotta take off yoah shoes.”

The problem was solved by the little girl behind Musashi who lent him her doll’s shoes to put on, take off, send through the X-ray machine in the big grey plastic tub, and then give back.

He thanked the girl and let her pat him on the head before going off to his terminal, where he reflected that Jimbond probably never faced such problems, and that, in fact, wearing shoes was no fun.

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