This Is Creepy!

This morning Kinky called. “Nance, I am very disappointed in the Eternal Squirrel. Last night it didn’t put out much light. Does the Squirrel need an adjustment or something? Call me.”

I immediately got up from the kitchen table, having just heard his message, and called him right back—and then I got his machine. “Kink, it’s Nancy. Nothing is wrong with the Eternal Squirrel. Call me.”

As soon as I had put the phone down, and sat back down at the kitchen table, to work on my computer. Kinky calls back, again. “Nance, pick up the phone. It’s me...”

“Hi Kink,” I said. “Sounds like you’ve got squirrel trouble.”

“Very funny, Nancy,” Kinky remarked. “Can you come over and check out the squirrel?”

“I’ll be there in five minutes.”

Kinky met me at the gate, and then escorted me around to the Friedman Family Bone Orchard. The minute that I saw the smiling Buddha, and the not-so Eternal Squirrel—I knew what was wrong. “Somebody has been messing with this, Kinky. The Buddha and the Eternal Squirrel have swapped places. Buddha is now where the Eternal Squirrel was, and the Eternal Squirrel is now where the Buddha was! This is creepy. Who in the world, would have done this?”

“I did it, yesterday afternoon,” Kinky confessed. “And, it’s not creepy. I decided to switch them around, because I was afraid that they might fall off of the stump.”

I walked over to the stump, looked behind the Eternal Squirrel. “Kinky, the way you have positioned them—the Eternal Squirrel’s solar cell panel, back here, is now in the dark, and not getting charged.”

Kinky walked over to the stump to take a look. Then he picked up the Buddha, who was laughing at him, and the weak Eternal Squirrel, and then returned them to their original placement on the stump. We both then looked at the Eternal Squirrel’s rear end, and yes—the sun was shinning on it!