Pppffpt! This is a very bad day. A very, very bad day. I will say it again – Pppfffpppt!
OK. Now Meerah feels a little better. I will tell you about my day.
First, Meerah and the nice lady are working again on Meerah’s book. There is much I could say about this, but I have typed it all before. So all I will say now is that the nice lady’s brain is very disturbed. If she reads this and calls me on the telephone with her angry voice, I will not answer. Also, Meerah has set her answering machine message to this: “If you wish to speak to Meerah, perhaps to learn some of her vast store of wisdom, please leave a message. Do not let the beep frighten you. Speak after it. If you are the nice lady then, Pppfffppt!”
Second, Meerah has lost her goat puppets. This is very sad. They were nice puppets too. Meerah found scraps that could be eyes and ears, as well as some nice little twigs that could be shaped into horns. I glued all this very carefully onto a nice pair of socks I found in my neighbor’s trash. Meerah was very surprised to find these socks because this neighbor doesn’t usually throw out usable items. When the puppets were finished I took them to the neighbor’s house and thanked them for throwing out such a nice pair of socks. (They were very long and white with two small bands of color at the top, right where the collar would be for the goat. You can now understand Meerah’s excitement.) The wife seemed too busy to listen to Meerah’s happy story of finding the socks, but the husband listened with great attention. He even asked to borrow the puppets. He wanted to show his children. This made Meerah very happy.
But now, I am sad. My neighbor says he left the puppets in Meera’s mailbox the next morning, but Meerah cannot find them. I have searched the whole neighborhood, but have not found my puppets. When I asked the man if he could have forgotten or put the puppets somewhere else, he sai, “No.” I am afraid I will not see my goat puppets ever again.
Finally, a third bad thing happened today. Meerah has a nice friend who told Meerah about a funny movie she thought Meerah would like. It was on the TV one night, but Meerah was going to be busy. So the friend told Meerah to record the movie. I told my friend this would not work. One day Meerah pushed some buttons on the nice lady’s DVD player and smoke came out. Now the nice lady’s DVD player is a plant stand at Meerah’s house. So, Meerah’s friend is very nice and offered to record the movie for Meerah. This made me very happy.
My friend gave me the DVD last night and I was very excited to watch the movie today. I put the disc into my DVD player (not one that is a plant stand) and pushed play. Sadly, my friend did not record the funny movie. Instead, what Meerah saw was sweaty men in a ring hitting each other. It was not really that funny. I called my friend and she said, “Oh no! I must have recorded Ultimate Fighting Champion by mistake.” I told her it was all right. I will try to find the movie in the library – or maybe at Walmart.
So, that is my very bad day. I have been angry, sad, and disappointed. And I still am a little bit. If you have a very bad day like Meerah, try saying, “Pppfffppt!” It helps a little. Not much, but a little bit.
If you see my goat puppets, please let me know.
