Abandoning a Dream..!
Was just glancing at the headlines and found that according to the Colorado police, a young mother Nicole Uribe- Lopez tried to sell her baby boy to buy a second hand Dodge Intrepid! On the same page next to the horrifying news is the famous cartoon strip: Denis the Menace. Suddenly I see cartoon character Uncle George Wilson stirring. He looks across page and reads same news report I’ve just read, then looks out of his window, sees little Dennis approaching his house and an idea takes shape:
“Hey Martha I got a plan,” he whispers furiously to his wife.
“Now George you’re not goin’ to worry that lil’ fellow are you?” asks Mrs Wilson as she runs to the cupboard to take out a jar of cookies for Dennis.
“Martha you ever thought of owning a Dodge Intrepid?”
“What’s that?”
“It’s the latest car! Comes fully equipped, music system and all!”
“And how dear George do you intend buying something like that wid your post carriers pension? You plannin’ a robbery or sometin?”
“Not exactly, but sort off!”
“Oh George, you know you won’t hurt a fly!”
“Martha I’m serious!”
“So what you plannin’ on doing?”
“Sell Dennis in Colorado!”
The doorbell rings before Martha can react and Dennis pours in, ambles to the cookie jar and grabs a handful. “Hiya Uncle George!”
“Dennis you like to come to Colorado?”
“To see the Grand Canyon?”
“Nah, just fer a ride!”
“But I want to see the Grand Canyon, Uncle George. I want to peer down that big crack and shout Phooyeee!”
“Phooyeee?” asks a troubled George Wilson.
“Yeah Uncle George phooyeee!”
“No Dennis, no peering down any hole and saying phooyeee!”
“Uncle George, please!”
“No Dennis, no!” shouts Uncle George hysterically.
“George!” shouts Martha, “let the little fellow shout phooyee!”
“Nope!”
“Jes’ once Uncle George!”
“Nope!”
“Then I’m not coming!”
“I’m not takin’ you!”
“Have some more cookies Dennis, ” says Martha as she pushes him back to the cookie jar and smiles as Dennis grabs another handful.
“Thanks Aunt Martha, I’m off,” says Dennis and skips away followed by Ruff.
“I told you that kid’s a nuisance!” shouts Uncle George, “he jes’ spoiled my chance of getting’ a brand new car!”
“Phooyeee..!” shouts Martha as she looks out of the window, “you could have allowed him to say phooyee, couldn’t you?”
“You mad,” whispers Uncle George, “I don’t want anybody saying phooyee to me brand new car. Imagine after all dat trouble, to have a kid tell me phooyee! See I’m abandonin’ my plan since he wants to say phooyeee to me!”
Ah Uncle George, ain’t we all like you? We work hard at some plan, put effort into an idea, dream a dream, but one little phooyeee from someone and we abandon everything..!
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