If you found money inside the wall of your apartment when you were fixing a hole in the sheet rock, what would you do?
I decided to re-hide it. This way I could wait and then think of a way to safely figure it out. If it was stolen money then people would know if I deposited it in a bank, I could be held responsible. What if it was someones life savings maybe I could wait and find its rightful owner. Given the state of how I found it, many of the bills were tattered and nibbled by mice, time had taken its toll, left its signature.
I collected and cleaned the money, wrapped it in a plastic bag and put it inside my grandfather clock, I built a false back that looked as if it was part of the structure. I took a moment to be impressed with my self. “Tick tock” I said.
I called my trusted penguin friend Goo Walla, She always knows what to do and what to do it. She is the most sensible person I know aside for the for that fact that she is a penguin.
One day she held my hand and said: “now listen I know I don’t look like a penguin, but I am,” she paused and brushed away a tear, “and, the sooner you start treating me like one, the smoother our relationship will be!” I looked into her eyes and spoke to her in a British accent, “Goo Walla, you are not the first animal-human I have met.”
“My mother was an iguana and she lived on the moon, my cousin was a Giraffe!”
This information I shared seemed too calm her and we began to grow together like old oak trees in an abandoned asylum. Trees grow through old buildings, it’s just how it is. Trees are in their own time zone.
A man stepped out of the tree line, he was naked, I couldn’t tell if he was laughing or crying. He approached me and reached out his hand. I hesitated and he grabbed my hand. I felt such confused conflicting emotions: surprise, fear, excitement!
That’s when the emotion police showed up. They reminded me that I hadn’t payed my emotional bills. Turns out the naked guy was working for them, that’s right, it was trap!
I’ve been entrapped by a rapture of emotional Oldsmobiles!