Banovelmouth, chapter 2
Chapter Two: Getting Somewhere
Satellite Ears and I woke up at around 7 AM the next morning. We were excited to see how our second day in our new home would turn out.
The first thing that Satellite Ears and I noticed was that there was a dining table out on the lawn! The dining table was made of wood and had white legs.
Not a blue woman came outside. He had made a plate full of burnt toaster pastries, and he set the plate out on the table.
“I got this table with the money I earned at my job last night,” he said. “The table appeared on the lawn after I got home from work early this morning.”
“How was your first day at work?” Satellite Ears asked Not a blue woman. “Did you get caught at your pickpocketing?”
“No, I didn’t”, said Not a blue woman. “And my boss assured me that pickpockets never get caught. In fact, he said that nobody in the criminal career field has ever been caught, that he knows of, anyway. He assured me that it was perfectly safe.”
“I should look for a science job today,” I said.
We each grabbed a toaster pastry off the plate on the table, and we stood around on the lawn eating the toaster pastries.
“I’m really, really sorry that I burnt the toaster pastries,” said Not a blue woman, looking sad. “I’m really bad at cooking.”
“It’s okay, Not a blue woman” said Satellite Ears. “Bananamouth and I are grateful to you for making breakfast for us. So what if it’s a little burnt.”
“Yeah,” I said. “We really appreciate it.”
The paper boy stopped by our house just then, and left a newspaper by the mailbox. After I’d finished my toaster pastry and washed my plate in the sink, I picked up the newspaper and looked at the Job Offers section. I found an offer for a science job as a test subject. “Sounds kind of risky,” I thought, “but it’s a start.” I decided to take the job. The hours seemed pretty good - 11 AM to 5 PM.
At 10 AM the carpool car arrived for me. I got into the car. The driver was a red-haired woman.
“Hello,” said the driver. “My name is Caryl, and I’ll drive you to work. The lab where you’ll work is just outside of Veronaville, and it doesn’t take too long to get to.”
“Thanks,” I said.
We arrived at SimLabs, my new workplace, a large white building with many windows. I went inside the building and found the head office, where the man there told me where to go for work.
I guess my first day at work was not too bad. They hooked me up to a big machine with wires for most of the day, and programmed the machine to give me shocks at random intervals. They said they needed to get me used to the feel of electric shocks. Thankfully, the shocks didn’t actually hurt me too much. At the end of the day, they gave me a pretty good paycheck.
Caryl picked me up again at SimLabs at the end of the day.
“How was your first day at work?” she asked me.
“It wasn’t too bad,” I said. “It was somewhat shocking.”
When I arrived home, I found Not a blue woman passed out in the front of the house. I stepped over him and went inside to find Satellite Ears sitting on the couch.
“Why is Not a blue woman sleeping on the lawn outside?” I asked Satellite Ears.
“He was really tired, and he just passed out there,” said Satellite Ears. “He’s been there most of the day since you went to work. I guess he was really tired from staying up all day yesterday, and then going to work, and then making us breakfast.”
I went outside and woke up Not a blue woman. We both went inside. I got an Instant Meal out of the fridge, and then I talked to my brothers about my first day at work.
“I wonder what I should do with the money I got today,” I said.
“Hmm,” said Not a blue woman. “Maybe we could get a bookcase. Or some chairs. Or a TV so that we can have something to entertain ourselves with.”
“Or a pinball machine!” said Satellite Ears. “Yeah! Those are the most fun things ever!”
We all agreed that buying a bookcase would be very useful. So we got a bookcase. We got it in the usual way - we wished we had one, and then it appeared in our living room, and we had a little less money.
“Oh boy!” said Not a blue woman. “Now I can read cookbooks and learn about cooking. Hopefully I won’t burn any more toaster pastries after I’ve learned a little more about cooking.”
“I hope these books are a little more useful and interesting than the ones that come with our beds,” I said. “I found a book under my bed pillow last night, and read it for a while. It was a stupid trashy romance novel.”
We had a little bit of money left over after we bought the bookcase, so we got one simple wooden dining chair for our dining table. “At least someone will be able to sit at the table now,” said Satellite Ears.
Satellite Ears and Not a blue woman each got an Instant Meal drink out of the fridge. Satellite Ears sat outside at the dining table, trying out the new dining chair. Not a blue woman drank his Instant Meal on the couch. I sat on the couch with him. I was trying to stay awake. I was exhausted after my day at work.
“Are you going to your pickpocket job tonight?” I asked Not a blue woman.
“I have the night off,” said Not a blue woman. “I think I’ll spend it studying a cookbook from our new bookcase.”
“Good idea,” I said. I got off the couch and went outside, got into my pyjamas, and went to bed.
When I woke up, I saw a stack of pancakes on a plate on the dining table. There was a stack of small plates next to the pancake plate. Not a blue woman was sitting at the dining table eating a pancake.
“Thanks for making pancakes!” I said.
“You’re welcome,” said Not a blue woman. “At least I didn’t burn anything this time.”
“Where’s Satellite Ears?” I asked.
“He got a job as an emergency medical technician. He’ll be out today until 2 in the afternoon.”
“Oh, okay,” I said. “Maybe we can get a new dining chair with the money he’ll earn.”
“Maybe someday we can get fancier dining chairs,” said Not a blue woman. “I heard you can get wooden dining chairs with white legs to match our table with white legs.”
I took a pancake off the stack of pancakes and put it on a plate. I went inside and sat on the couch and ate my breakfast, and then it was time to go to work. Caryl drove me again.
As I entered the SimLabs room where the tests were to be done on me, the head scientist there informed me that I was going to be studied by the ESP department. He explained that the ESP research team would be doing experiments on me that day. The team hooked me up to the shock machine again, but didn’t seem too happy with the results. Oh well, at least I got another paycheck at the end of the day.
I got home at 5 in the afternoon. I found Satellite Ears sleeping in a bed outside. I skipped inside, and found Not a blue woman asleep on the living room couch. I also found a small Smustle Machine brand radio in the living room. I turned on the radio and started to dance to it. Not a blue woman woke up.
“I guess it’s about time I woke up, anyway,” Not a blue woman said. “I see you discovered the radio that Satellite Ears and I got while you were out.”
“It’s pretty cool!” I said. “Now we can really have some fun!”
“I think I’ll cook some macaroni and cheese,” said Not a blue woman. “Would you like some?”
“Sure!” I said. I continued dancing to the radio until Not a blue woman was finished cooking the macaroni and cheese. Then we both sat down on the couch and ate supper, and then Not a blue woman went off to work. I took a shower and then went to bed in the backyard.
The next day, I had a day off work. I decided to look at one of the cookbooks that we had in the bookcase. To my surprise, I discovered that it didn’t just have recipes and information about food - for some reason, it also contained chapters on cleaning and how machines work. I read the cleaning chapters with great interest for quite some time. I figured that learning about cleaning would be useful somehow if I was going into the science career.
I made myself some toaster pastries in the oven. I sat at the dining table and ate the pastries. I hadn’t burnt them, so they tasted pretty good! Then I went inside and discovered Not a blue woman sitting on the living room couch, reading a novel.
Not a blue woman put his book down. “I got promoted last night!” he exclaimed. “I'll no longer be a pickpocket. Now I have a job as a bagman!”
“That’s great!” I said. “Now maybe we can afford some more dining chairs or a television.”
“It would certainly be nice to have a TV,” said Not a blue woman. “I wonder what channels and shows we’d get.”
“What are your working hours now?” I asked.
“I work from 5 in the afternoon to 1 in the morning,” said Not a blue woman.
“You know what I’d really like to have?” I said. “An easel. Then I could paint pictures of all sorts of things.”
“That’d be useful,” Not a blue woman agreed. Just then, an easel appeared outside. Not a blue woman and I went over to look at it.
“I think Satellite Ears will be pleased with this when he gets home from work,” I said.
“Indeed,” said Not a blue woman. He got out the paints and canvas that came with the easel, and painted on the canvas until his carpool for work arrived at 4 in the afternoon.
I sat on the couch drinking an Instant Meal until Satellite Ears got home from work at 5. I skipped outside and greeted him.
“We got an easel today,” I told Satellite Ears.
“That’s great!” he said happily. “Hey, I think now I have enough money for that pinball machine I wanted!”
“Don’t you think we should buy some chairs for the dining table instead?” I asked.
“No!” said Satellite Ears. He sounded a bit annoyed. “A pinball machine is much more fun than some stupid old chairs!”
“All right then,” I grumbled.
We got a pinball machine. It was put out on the front lawn. Satellite Ears and I played with it for a while, and had lots of fun! Then Satellite Ears went to the backyard and got into bed.
I heard the phone ringing inside. I went inside and answered the phone. It was Carmen Patch calling me. We talked for a while. She invited me to an art museum, but I didn’t feel like going. “Thanks for telling me, though,” I said. “It sounds like an awesome place to go. I’ll have to check it out some other time.”
We finished talking, and then I went back outside. I went to the front yard and I started to play with the pinball machine.
Satellite Ears appeared on the front lawn in his pyjamas. “Hey!” he yelled. “I’m trying to sleep! You woke me up!”
“I was just playing pinball,” I said.
“You woke me up with it!” he said angrily.
“You’re the one who wanted the damn thing in the first place!” I yelled. “Maybe we should just get rid of it!”
“NO!” screamed Satellite Ears.
A car appeared on the street and stopped in front of our house. Not a blue woman got out of the car.
“Hey guys, what’s going on here?” asked Not a blue woman.
“Bananamouth woke me up with the pinball machine!” said Satellite Ears.
“How did I know it would wake you up?” I said.
“Guys, let’s not fight,” said Not a blue woman. “How about we move the pinball machine inside?”
“Okay,” I said. So we did. Then we all went outside to bed.
The next day at work, I was still working with the ESP research team. They studied me, and tried to see if I had any psychic powers. I was thinking that they were all a bunch of very silly lunatics, but of course I was not going to say that out loud at my workplace. Caryl and I had a laugh about it when she drove me home from work, though.
The next few days went on pretty much like this, with me working as a test subject at SimLabs, Satellite Ears working as an emergency medical technician, and Not a blue woman continuing his job as a bagman.
One day, the three of us were all at home at the same time, and we were tired of reading books and playing with the pinball machine.
“What should we do?” said Not a blue woman.
“I know!” I said. “We could go to the art museum!”
“What art museum?” asked Satellite Ears.
“Carmen Patch phoned me last week, and said there was an art museum in town,” I said. “It sounded pretty interesting.”
“Okay, let’s go!” said Not a blue woman. “I’ll call the taxi.”
Not a blue woman called the taxi, which came in a few minutes. We all got in, and in a few minutes we were at the Veronaville art museum.
We jumped out of the car. “This is going to be interesting,” I said.
We walked into the museum. Classical music was playing inside. There were many rooms. One of the rooms on the ground floor contained the famous flaming toilet exhibit that I’d heard about from Carmen. It consisted of a toilet on fire, enclosed in glass.
“Wow!” Satellite Ears exclaimed when he saw the flaming toilet. “I wouldn’t want to use that toilet!”
“I wonder how they keep that fire going,” I said.
“I think they have a flame machine under the toilet,” said Not a blue woman. “The kind of flame machines that some people have in their backyards to roast marshmallows on.”
“Wow, then I’m sure glad they have it safely behind a glass,” said Satellite Ears. “I’ve read that those flame machines can be really dangerous, especially if people play with them indoors. I’ve read stories in the newspaper about people being killed by them.”
“Well, I don’t think they were meant for indoor use,” said Not a blue woman. “I’m sure that the one in this toilet exhibit is perfectly safe.”
“Let’s go upstairs,” I suggested.
We went upstairs. There were lots of paintings in the rooms on the upper floor of the museum. I saw a sculpture of some bananas. “Hey, those look like my mouth!” I said.
“Hahaha! Good one, Bananamouth!” Satellite Ears laughed.
We went back downstairs. We found a door that said “Theatre” on it. We opened the door, and inside that room there was a big movie screen. A bunch of people were sitting on chairs in the theatre room.
“I think this theatre is showing the programs that we would be seeing on TV if we had a TV set,” said Satellite Ears.
We sat in the theatre for a while and watched a cooking show.
When we got out of the theatre room, Not a blue woman said, “Boy, that cooking show sure made me hungry. Let’s try to find something to eat.”
“I don’t know,” said Satellite Ears. “Do art museums usually serve food?”
“When Carmen phoned me, she mentioned that there was a hot dog grill in the museum, and that anyone could grill hot dogs on it,” I said.
We wandered around on the ground floor of the museum for a while, and then we found the room where the hot dog grill was. The room also had dining tables and chairs. Not a blue woman found some hot dogs and plates under the grill. He cooked the hot dogs on the grill while Satellite Ears and I sat at a table. When Not a blue woman was finished grilling the dogs, he put them on plates, and set out the plates at the tables. People came into the room from all over the museum to sit down at the tables and eat the hot dogs!
When Not a blue woman was finished serving all the grilled hot dogs, he joined me and Satellite Ears at our table. We were sitting with a young woman named Kendra McCarthy. She had long black hair and was wearing a pink dress.
“I really appreciate you making these hot dogs!” Kendra said to Not a blue woman.
“I’m glad you like them,” said Not a blue woman. “I don’t think I could eat them all myself anyway.”
After we finished our hot dogs, we decided to go home. Satellite Ears found a public phone in the yard at the front of the museum, and he called a taxi, and we got in it and went home.
Satellite Ears and I woke up at around 7 AM the next morning. We were excited to see how our second day in our new home would turn out.
The first thing that Satellite Ears and I noticed was that there was a dining table out on the lawn! The dining table was made of wood and had white legs.
Not a blue woman came outside. He had made a plate full of burnt toaster pastries, and he set the plate out on the table.
“I got this table with the money I earned at my job last night,” he said. “The table appeared on the lawn after I got home from work early this morning.”
“How was your first day at work?” Satellite Ears asked Not a blue woman. “Did you get caught at your pickpocketing?”
“No, I didn’t”, said Not a blue woman. “And my boss assured me that pickpockets never get caught. In fact, he said that nobody in the criminal career field has ever been caught, that he knows of, anyway. He assured me that it was perfectly safe.”
“I should look for a science job today,” I said.
We each grabbed a toaster pastry off the plate on the table, and we stood around on the lawn eating the toaster pastries.
“I’m really, really sorry that I burnt the toaster pastries,” said Not a blue woman, looking sad. “I’m really bad at cooking.”
“It’s okay, Not a blue woman” said Satellite Ears. “Bananamouth and I are grateful to you for making breakfast for us. So what if it’s a little burnt.”
“Yeah,” I said. “We really appreciate it.”
The paper boy stopped by our house just then, and left a newspaper by the mailbox. After I’d finished my toaster pastry and washed my plate in the sink, I picked up the newspaper and looked at the Job Offers section. I found an offer for a science job as a test subject. “Sounds kind of risky,” I thought, “but it’s a start.” I decided to take the job. The hours seemed pretty good - 11 AM to 5 PM.
At 10 AM the carpool car arrived for me. I got into the car. The driver was a red-haired woman.
“Hello,” said the driver. “My name is Caryl, and I’ll drive you to work. The lab where you’ll work is just outside of Veronaville, and it doesn’t take too long to get to.”
“Thanks,” I said.
We arrived at SimLabs, my new workplace, a large white building with many windows. I went inside the building and found the head office, where the man there told me where to go for work.
I guess my first day at work was not too bad. They hooked me up to a big machine with wires for most of the day, and programmed the machine to give me shocks at random intervals. They said they needed to get me used to the feel of electric shocks. Thankfully, the shocks didn’t actually hurt me too much. At the end of the day, they gave me a pretty good paycheck.
Caryl picked me up again at SimLabs at the end of the day.
“How was your first day at work?” she asked me.
“It wasn’t too bad,” I said. “It was somewhat shocking.”
When I arrived home, I found Not a blue woman passed out in the front of the house. I stepped over him and went inside to find Satellite Ears sitting on the couch.
“Why is Not a blue woman sleeping on the lawn outside?” I asked Satellite Ears.
“He was really tired, and he just passed out there,” said Satellite Ears. “He’s been there most of the day since you went to work. I guess he was really tired from staying up all day yesterday, and then going to work, and then making us breakfast.”
I went outside and woke up Not a blue woman. We both went inside. I got an Instant Meal out of the fridge, and then I talked to my brothers about my first day at work.
“I wonder what I should do with the money I got today,” I said.
“Hmm,” said Not a blue woman. “Maybe we could get a bookcase. Or some chairs. Or a TV so that we can have something to entertain ourselves with.”
“Or a pinball machine!” said Satellite Ears. “Yeah! Those are the most fun things ever!”
We all agreed that buying a bookcase would be very useful. So we got a bookcase. We got it in the usual way - we wished we had one, and then it appeared in our living room, and we had a little less money.
“Oh boy!” said Not a blue woman. “Now I can read cookbooks and learn about cooking. Hopefully I won’t burn any more toaster pastries after I’ve learned a little more about cooking.”
“I hope these books are a little more useful and interesting than the ones that come with our beds,” I said. “I found a book under my bed pillow last night, and read it for a while. It was a stupid trashy romance novel.”
We had a little bit of money left over after we bought the bookcase, so we got one simple wooden dining chair for our dining table. “At least someone will be able to sit at the table now,” said Satellite Ears.
Satellite Ears and Not a blue woman each got an Instant Meal drink out of the fridge. Satellite Ears sat outside at the dining table, trying out the new dining chair. Not a blue woman drank his Instant Meal on the couch. I sat on the couch with him. I was trying to stay awake. I was exhausted after my day at work.
“Are you going to your pickpocket job tonight?” I asked Not a blue woman.
“I have the night off,” said Not a blue woman. “I think I’ll spend it studying a cookbook from our new bookcase.”
“Good idea,” I said. I got off the couch and went outside, got into my pyjamas, and went to bed.
When I woke up, I saw a stack of pancakes on a plate on the dining table. There was a stack of small plates next to the pancake plate. Not a blue woman was sitting at the dining table eating a pancake.
“Thanks for making pancakes!” I said.
“You’re welcome,” said Not a blue woman. “At least I didn’t burn anything this time.”
“Where’s Satellite Ears?” I asked.
“He got a job as an emergency medical technician. He’ll be out today until 2 in the afternoon.”
“Oh, okay,” I said. “Maybe we can get a new dining chair with the money he’ll earn.”
“Maybe someday we can get fancier dining chairs,” said Not a blue woman. “I heard you can get wooden dining chairs with white legs to match our table with white legs.”
I took a pancake off the stack of pancakes and put it on a plate. I went inside and sat on the couch and ate my breakfast, and then it was time to go to work. Caryl drove me again.
As I entered the SimLabs room where the tests were to be done on me, the head scientist there informed me that I was going to be studied by the ESP department. He explained that the ESP research team would be doing experiments on me that day. The team hooked me up to the shock machine again, but didn’t seem too happy with the results. Oh well, at least I got another paycheck at the end of the day.
I got home at 5 in the afternoon. I found Satellite Ears sleeping in a bed outside. I skipped inside, and found Not a blue woman asleep on the living room couch. I also found a small Smustle Machine brand radio in the living room. I turned on the radio and started to dance to it. Not a blue woman woke up.
“I guess it’s about time I woke up, anyway,” Not a blue woman said. “I see you discovered the radio that Satellite Ears and I got while you were out.”
“It’s pretty cool!” I said. “Now we can really have some fun!”
“I think I’ll cook some macaroni and cheese,” said Not a blue woman. “Would you like some?”
“Sure!” I said. I continued dancing to the radio until Not a blue woman was finished cooking the macaroni and cheese. Then we both sat down on the couch and ate supper, and then Not a blue woman went off to work. I took a shower and then went to bed in the backyard.
The next day, I had a day off work. I decided to look at one of the cookbooks that we had in the bookcase. To my surprise, I discovered that it didn’t just have recipes and information about food - for some reason, it also contained chapters on cleaning and how machines work. I read the cleaning chapters with great interest for quite some time. I figured that learning about cleaning would be useful somehow if I was going into the science career.
I made myself some toaster pastries in the oven. I sat at the dining table and ate the pastries. I hadn’t burnt them, so they tasted pretty good! Then I went inside and discovered Not a blue woman sitting on the living room couch, reading a novel.
Not a blue woman put his book down. “I got promoted last night!” he exclaimed. “I'll no longer be a pickpocket. Now I have a job as a bagman!”
“That’s great!” I said. “Now maybe we can afford some more dining chairs or a television.”
“It would certainly be nice to have a TV,” said Not a blue woman. “I wonder what channels and shows we’d get.”
“What are your working hours now?” I asked.
“I work from 5 in the afternoon to 1 in the morning,” said Not a blue woman.
“You know what I’d really like to have?” I said. “An easel. Then I could paint pictures of all sorts of things.”
“That’d be useful,” Not a blue woman agreed. Just then, an easel appeared outside. Not a blue woman and I went over to look at it.
“I think Satellite Ears will be pleased with this when he gets home from work,” I said.
“Indeed,” said Not a blue woman. He got out the paints and canvas that came with the easel, and painted on the canvas until his carpool for work arrived at 4 in the afternoon.
I sat on the couch drinking an Instant Meal until Satellite Ears got home from work at 5. I skipped outside and greeted him.
“We got an easel today,” I told Satellite Ears.
“That’s great!” he said happily. “Hey, I think now I have enough money for that pinball machine I wanted!”
“Don’t you think we should buy some chairs for the dining table instead?” I asked.
“No!” said Satellite Ears. He sounded a bit annoyed. “A pinball machine is much more fun than some stupid old chairs!”
“All right then,” I grumbled.
We got a pinball machine. It was put out on the front lawn. Satellite Ears and I played with it for a while, and had lots of fun! Then Satellite Ears went to the backyard and got into bed.
I heard the phone ringing inside. I went inside and answered the phone. It was Carmen Patch calling me. We talked for a while. She invited me to an art museum, but I didn’t feel like going. “Thanks for telling me, though,” I said. “It sounds like an awesome place to go. I’ll have to check it out some other time.”
We finished talking, and then I went back outside. I went to the front yard and I started to play with the pinball machine.
Satellite Ears appeared on the front lawn in his pyjamas. “Hey!” he yelled. “I’m trying to sleep! You woke me up!”
“I was just playing pinball,” I said.
“You woke me up with it!” he said angrily.
“You’re the one who wanted the damn thing in the first place!” I yelled. “Maybe we should just get rid of it!”
“NO!” screamed Satellite Ears.
A car appeared on the street and stopped in front of our house. Not a blue woman got out of the car.
“Hey guys, what’s going on here?” asked Not a blue woman.
“Bananamouth woke me up with the pinball machine!” said Satellite Ears.
“How did I know it would wake you up?” I said.
“Guys, let’s not fight,” said Not a blue woman. “How about we move the pinball machine inside?”
“Okay,” I said. So we did. Then we all went outside to bed.
The next day at work, I was still working with the ESP research team. They studied me, and tried to see if I had any psychic powers. I was thinking that they were all a bunch of very silly lunatics, but of course I was not going to say that out loud at my workplace. Caryl and I had a laugh about it when she drove me home from work, though.
The next few days went on pretty much like this, with me working as a test subject at SimLabs, Satellite Ears working as an emergency medical technician, and Not a blue woman continuing his job as a bagman.
One day, the three of us were all at home at the same time, and we were tired of reading books and playing with the pinball machine.
“What should we do?” said Not a blue woman.
“I know!” I said. “We could go to the art museum!”
“What art museum?” asked Satellite Ears.
“Carmen Patch phoned me last week, and said there was an art museum in town,” I said. “It sounded pretty interesting.”
“Okay, let’s go!” said Not a blue woman. “I’ll call the taxi.”
Not a blue woman called the taxi, which came in a few minutes. We all got in, and in a few minutes we were at the Veronaville art museum.
We jumped out of the car. “This is going to be interesting,” I said.
We walked into the museum. Classical music was playing inside. There were many rooms. One of the rooms on the ground floor contained the famous flaming toilet exhibit that I’d heard about from Carmen. It consisted of a toilet on fire, enclosed in glass.
“Wow!” Satellite Ears exclaimed when he saw the flaming toilet. “I wouldn’t want to use that toilet!”
“I wonder how they keep that fire going,” I said.
“I think they have a flame machine under the toilet,” said Not a blue woman. “The kind of flame machines that some people have in their backyards to roast marshmallows on.”
“Wow, then I’m sure glad they have it safely behind a glass,” said Satellite Ears. “I’ve read that those flame machines can be really dangerous, especially if people play with them indoors. I’ve read stories in the newspaper about people being killed by them.”
“Well, I don’t think they were meant for indoor use,” said Not a blue woman. “I’m sure that the one in this toilet exhibit is perfectly safe.”
“Let’s go upstairs,” I suggested.
We went upstairs. There were lots of paintings in the rooms on the upper floor of the museum. I saw a sculpture of some bananas. “Hey, those look like my mouth!” I said.
“Hahaha! Good one, Bananamouth!” Satellite Ears laughed.
We went back downstairs. We found a door that said “Theatre” on it. We opened the door, and inside that room there was a big movie screen. A bunch of people were sitting on chairs in the theatre room.
“I think this theatre is showing the programs that we would be seeing on TV if we had a TV set,” said Satellite Ears.
We sat in the theatre for a while and watched a cooking show.
When we got out of the theatre room, Not a blue woman said, “Boy, that cooking show sure made me hungry. Let’s try to find something to eat.”
“I don’t know,” said Satellite Ears. “Do art museums usually serve food?”
“When Carmen phoned me, she mentioned that there was a hot dog grill in the museum, and that anyone could grill hot dogs on it,” I said.
We wandered around on the ground floor of the museum for a while, and then we found the room where the hot dog grill was. The room also had dining tables and chairs. Not a blue woman found some hot dogs and plates under the grill. He cooked the hot dogs on the grill while Satellite Ears and I sat at a table. When Not a blue woman was finished grilling the dogs, he put them on plates, and set out the plates at the tables. People came into the room from all over the museum to sit down at the tables and eat the hot dogs!
When Not a blue woman was finished serving all the grilled hot dogs, he joined me and Satellite Ears at our table. We were sitting with a young woman named Kendra McCarthy. She had long black hair and was wearing a pink dress.
“I really appreciate you making these hot dogs!” Kendra said to Not a blue woman.
“I’m glad you like them,” said Not a blue woman. “I don’t think I could eat them all myself anyway.”
After we finished our hot dogs, we decided to go home. Satellite Ears found a public phone in the yard at the front of the museum, and he called a taxi, and we got in it and went home.