Master
Po starting to scare himself and worry too as he grow older
gracefully. Today he remember that dog in monk monastery, named
Chanel and buddy to Coco is due for oral vaccine at vet office in
Roaring Spring. Mrs. Po look up animal hospital online and realize
they are closed on Wednesday afternoons. He get prior permission
from Vet to pick up medicine so he not have to take Chanel in car to
office. This important later in story.
Mrs.
Po go to therapy for sciatica and Master Po home alone with Coco &
Chanel. He decide to go to SubWay for a sub for lunch and stop in
Dollar Store while close by, so he can get new sets of Christmas
lights that he need to make new connection where one set no longer
work, and other set are blinkers.
One
set no longer work because Master Po cut tree down in back yard in
November, and it fall right on Mrs. Po's light set that are strung
out on back patio. He predict where huge tree will fall, but he miss
prediction by 180 degrees. If you not know this geometrical figure,
it mean tree fall in exactly opposite direction where he hope it
fall. Many lights no longer work because of my slight
miscalculation.
So,
he take down one other set of lights too, because they blink, and no
other lights around house do this. His goal is to purchase TWO sets
of lights. And Mrs. Po remind him, lights must be CLEAR, and wire
must be GREEN.
He
take down blinking set and always thinking ahead, he not want Coco or
Chanel to drag them around playing with glass bulbs or wire, so he
place entire set on hood of black Jeep in driveway. He then forget
lights are on hood and drive to stores and park so he can go to
SubWay and Dollar Store without getting in and out of car twice. He
always think ahead again, and park so he can hobble to both places.
He buy lights, put in jeep, and then realize other set of blinking
lights on hood no longer there. Somewhere they lay along road as
they blow off jeep as I drive.
He
then hobble to SubWay, and meet honorable Greg Carbaugh and son Ryan
having lunch in Sub place. He talk to them, pick up sub and head to
car. He hit, remote unlock button, grab door handle and open Jeep
door. Then he notice, not only is it not Master Po jeep, it also
wrong color - this one is bright blue, parked in wrong place, and have “Carbaugh” painted
on side in large WHITE letters. Master Po too embarrassed to even look
back thru large window to see if Carbaughs are laughing at him. He
just close their door, hobble to his jeep, and drive back home. He
look for missing set of lights but not find them.
Once
home he take boxes out of bag and get ready to replace set broken by
falling tree. Sure enough, he notice one box say, Clear lights-
White wire. Other box say Assorted Color lights – Green wire. He
still not know how he read wrongly in store. He also have no idea
how he open wrong Jeep with large lettering.
He
drive back to store, in correct jeep after eating sub. He also look
for missing set of lights too, as he drive to return wrong labeled
lights. He find out store not have lights Mrs. Po say we need. So,
always thinking ahead and not want to make needless trips to Roaring
Spring Dept Store, he decide to use light purchase trip in
combination with picking up vaccine for Chanel.
He
drive to Roaring Spring, turn into parking lot of animal hospital,
and can't believe he forgot Vet office not open. He drive to Dept
Store, buy new lights and head home. When he tell Mrs. Po about his
day, she just shake head and also say she starting to worry about me.
The end.