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bobolink25's blog: "Stories"

created on 10/08/2008  |  http://fubar.com/stories/b250972
Allow me to relate a charming occurrence while working at Daedalus Bookshop on Wed., March 12, 2008: Soon after I arrived I made a pot of coffee to go with a few blueberry turnovers. We had actually quite a good day for sales, which means a lot to the owner -- sales at all of the bookshops have been down the last several months. In the afternoon there came into the store a very precious little brown haired girl accompanied by her uncle. After looking through all the children’s books he came out with an old 14 volume set of ChildCraft, which is chock full of beautiful illustrations. There were a quite a number of stuffed animals on the top bookshelves and she was curious about one very nice little dark brown dog. So I reached up and got it down for her. It had a brown string attached to it’s mouth, maybe where a tag had been attached. She thought it was out of place and asked me if we could cut it off. So I pulled a pair of scissors from the top desk drawer and handed it to her, but she wanted me to cut it off -- so I did. She said that it’s fur needed brushing so I looked in the desk drawers but told her I didn’t think that we had a brush. She said though that all of the animals’ fur needed brushing. I allowed that she was right though it just hadn’t occurred to me. I said that I had brushes at home and in fact had a very nice hair brush and could just bring it next time. Though I’d need to wipe the Brylcreem out of it (!) Uncle Joel agreed, saying that the animals might rather have Vitalis. I said yes, or maybe nothing at all -- or a little talcum powder. She took out her own long purple comb and began to comb the dog’s very short hair. Uncle Joel asked her how many little horses they had brought along that were waiting for them outside. She said there were five. He asked her if she knew which ones and she named each one without hesitating. He said he was glad that she could keep up with them because he couldn’t. He asked how many there were in the whole herd back home, and she replied that she couldn’t count that many. She noted a teddy bear that was lying on a low book shelf and said its fur needed brushing also. I said it was resting because it was tired after running ’round the shop all morning. I said sometimes the dog also was frisky and would run around the shop and then it would get tired too. So she took the dog over and laid it on top of the teddy bear so they could rest together. Uncle Joel introduced himself to me smiling and I asked him if he wanted a box or bag for the set of books and he said no, they didn’t have far to walk. I told him that was a great position to be in; that I was also an uncle and my niece Emily had just turned 11 and was still fabulous. I remembered well however when she was that age. He handed four of the volumes to his niece who dropped one of them but got down and managed to gather them all in her arms as they walked into the dappled reflections and dulcet hum of 4th Street. http://bobolink.blogs.friendster.com/bobs_blog/images/redshoes_1.jpg http://bobolink.blogs.friendster.com/bobs_blog/images/emily_2.jpg
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