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The Toaster has been very upset with Keith’s many and prolonged absences this summer. So last Friday he disappeared in a sort of Inverted Finding Nemo thing and ran off to search for Bwana.
We wouldn’t have known where to start to look for him, but luckily the Table Lamp overheard him saying something about the Red Sox. We figured that he figured that Keith would be up in Boston for the Yanks-Sawx series. The Candelabra went to search for him. I would have gone but a candelabra is one heck of a lot more mobile than a mattress. Candelabra has outstanding investigative instincts — plus he sounds remarkably like Lennie Briscoe.
It was a long weekend full of worry, but Candelabra finally found him this morning. Toaster was wandering on Lansdowne Street just outside of Fenway. We’re lucky he didn’t fall into the Charles River. We’re also lucky he didn’t remember that Keith was recently in Los Angeles, otherwise he would have headed out west and might be lost in Nebraska now.
Small appliances can be rather bothersome, but they are useful and have a certain charm. The rest of the household is annoyed with him, but I think it’s important to let Toaster be Toaster.
(Wikipedia has a “Fictional Americans” category. There’s no category for “Fictional Relationships” — for those pretend liaisons over which certain people fantasize/obsess. Perhaps those are best listed as romantic fiction.)
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The writing on this site is sheer genius. Mattress, I humbly bow to your literary talent and unique sense of humor.
Comment by Blue Velvet Tuesday 22 August 2006 @ 16:01 pmHey, you can’t let Toaster run wild. Push his buttons and he gets red-hot. Much too fiery a temper. Good thing you found him before he burnt his bridges.
Cristiane
Comment by Cristiane Tuesday 22 August 2006 @ 20:27 pmWell, it was a good guess but it’s looking as if KO never left Los Angeles after all. Which kind of makes you wonder what is the big attraction. I suspect it isn’t a sudden passion for the Dodgers or the Halos.
Comment by Scoop Wednesday 23 August 2006 @ 20:11 pm