The Girls Conduct A Little Inquiry

 

 
            I was sitting here communing harmlessly with the internet, typing away at something, when I noticed that Suzie was at my elbow waiting to be noticed as she does. Her eyes were squinched shut, like she was trying to gather her thoughts, and she had those small toes lined up tightly together.
            This looked serious.
            “Hey, what do you hear from Toots lately,” I said, by way of acknowledging her presence.
            “She didn’t need to tell me anything, I was there,” she said, with those green eyes open now.
            “Oh? Was it another excursion? What happened?” I said, turning to her, all attentively.
            “It started out as a very big idea. See, Toots believed in the Wild Man of the Woods. She’s seen things at night. You know, right? But, I wasn’t so sure, even though we are supposed to live in Wild Man Headquarters,” she said.
            “OK, what was the big idea?” I asked.
            “Somebody said the Wild Man isn’t from Earth, but some other planet. Toots was unsure about that. I had no opinion.
            “We decided to find out if that was true, or just more of the stuff people say to feel important. The deal was how to research that. Nobody on that window thing you guys look at all the time knows. They just say stuff. We had to discover a way,” said Suzie.
            “I see. You’re right about that, people just say anything they want to say,” said I. “So, what did you determine?”
            “Toots thought we should talk to somebody who knows the answer, right? Now, who would know the answer? Well, you can imagine who she wanted to talk to! Yeah!
            “She thought that if we got into Purrception Mode™ like we do when we go places, um, planets and stuff, that we could pick up like a signal, a beam or something and follow it to its source,” said Suzie.
            “How did that go?” I said.
            “You know we wanted to talk to a friendly Wild Man. So, um, last night we kind of drifted around, like looking over a lot of America. We like tasted a lot of places and finally we found ourselves in the mountains pretty close to home. There was like a nice friendly message in the air. You know, not really wild, more like a dad or something. It was like an invitation. Come and talk to me, sort of. Look, I know this sounds seriously crazy,” she said.
            “No. If it’s true I can handle it. Go on. What happened then?”
            “We knew we were safe, because nobody can do anything to a point of vision, so we went to where he was. Oh, that’s when I stopped  having no opinion! He was huge, and brown, and hairy! He was sitting on a big dead log in a forest, smoking a cigar! I know how this sounds! But it’s true!
            “He knew we were there! He couldn’t have seen us! How did he know?” she said.
            “What did he do?” I asked.
            “He grinned, kept puffing on his cigar, and said, ‘Howdy girls!’ and ‘What can I do for you?’” she said.
            “So, since he was so nice, and we weren’t a bit afraid of him even though he was so big, Toots said, ‘We are here to ask a question, maybe two questions, depending.’ You know, he could have been scary looking, but he was all warm inside, if you know what I mean?
            “I couldn’t talk, but Toots said, ‘We came to you to find out if you and all those like you are from Earth, or somewhere else. Some people keep saying that you and your kind must have come from somewhere else, like some other planet, through a portal.’
            “He said, ‘As far as I know, from our myths, and old stories our mamas told us, passed down forever, we were made here on this planet, just like every other creature, including Man. I don’t understand why men say things they have no proof for, or authority to quote.
            ‘You two little souls, cats if I’m not mistaken, have done better than all the experts and investigators in the world!’ He puffed some more on his cigar. ‘I wish the big experts would come out here and ask me, if they have the courage! But, I’m afraid they are afraid’, he said.
            “We said thanks, and told him our names, and said that yes, we were cats. Toots told him that we were very glad to have met him, and that he wasn’t scary, like they say. Then, I was right here, on the back of the recliner, and Toots was back with Sammie. We had only been gone for a little while.
            “Does that sound completely crazy to you?” said Suzie. And she did look a little worried.
            “No, Honey, I believe every word! Did you ask this big guy on the log his name?” I said.
            “No! We must have been so excited that we forgot our manners! Why?” said Suzie.
            “Oh, I just wondered,” and I laughed a little.
            Having gotten all of that off of her furry little chest, she hopped down and went over to the nearest chair to snooze a little.
Why, it’s just amazing what those girls get up to! As they say, those who say such things, “Will wonders never cease!” I doubt it!

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