Sick Day

OLeif began his day feeling sick. A throbbing headache lead to nausea, which led to him staying in bed all morning. It wasn’t an uncommon occurrence for him to wake up in the morning with a headache. Collette was just glad that it wasn’t like the episode earlier that year when he had woken with a wrenching case of food poisoning and/or taking too many Ibuprofen at once.
So Collette and Puck spent their morning doing the usual – cleaning, playing with OLeif’s set of silver measuring cups and spoons, the bouncy rubber ball, cooking another pot of Argentine lentil stew, and looking through a thick book of constellations and galaxies. Puck was particularly enraptured with the spiral galaxies.
By the afternoon, OLeif was feeling much better. He felt well enough, in fact, to escort Collette and Puck on an unintentional shopping trip. He needed new clothes.
On the way, OLeif pointed to a spot of crud on the driver’s window.
“See that?” he said. “It’s in the perfect image of the man I want to look like when I grow up. Beard and everything.”
Collette had to agree that the smudge, did, indeed, look like a bearded man. She wasn’t certain that the beard was a good idea, however.
After their excursion, Puck had a new miniature tent for the basement. And OLeif had a new wardrobe: dark brown khakis, dark blue jeans, dark brown corduroys, and a new pair of dark brown casual shoes. Collette could breath a little easier knowing that her husband would be appropriately dressed to play violin in front of church every Sunday. Say goodbye to paint-stained pants (who knew where the paint came from), and scuffy shoes.

“According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, ‘If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.’”
– http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1842899/posts