My Day with Mr. Waterfoot (standard:humor, 398 words)
Author: nerdgirl	Added: Sep 12 2000	Views/Reads: 4671/9	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
This story is very short so just read it...it might make you laugh and if you dont then there is something wrong with you.

My Day with Mr. Waterfoot 

My eyes jerk across the room to see the man with a furry hat and trench
coat on.  He is so tall that his hat falls off when he walks through 
the doorway.  I watch his every move as he orders from the menu at 
Blue's Diner. 

"I'll have a banana soup and coffee,” says the strange man to the
typical looking hairy waitress. 

My nervous footsteps sound like a grandfather clock as I approach his
table.  "Excuse me, would you like to take a walk in Cherry Bomb Park 
when you're done?" I asked.  He accepts with a smile that stretches 
from ear to ear. All of the sudden I think of Rolling Stones music and 
then it occurs to me that I should name him "Jaegger Lips". 

The ugly waitress yells out, "phone for Mr. Waterfoot, line 54!"  She
has a whiney voice that irritates me.  Jaegger lips gets up as a banana 
falls from his huge mouth and walks over to the phone in the whiney, 
ugly, waitress' hand. 

He is done with his phone call, pays his bill, and now we head for the
park.  We walk through grass as ticks the size of dimes roam our bare 
feet.  I want to start a conversation with him but I am not sure how, 
my social skills are a bit rusty.  I get the courage to talk and ask 
him if he ever wanted to build an atomic bomb. 

"I already built one when I was 6" he replies and looks at me as if it
is none of my business so I drop the touchy subject feeling a little 
awkward at the same time. 

"How beautiful" I remark as I snap a picture of a cow drowning in a
waterfall.  "It is beautiful but also a sad sight you see" Jaegger Lips 
continues his lecture, "it should be illegal for farmers to throw their 
cows over Oil falls after they grow old."  I never thought about it 
from his point of view so right at that moment we decide to do 
something about it.  A few weeks later "Cow Law #12" is passed.  Now 
the once tourist attracted moo's of a drowning cow will not be heard 
again thanks to Mr. Waterfoot and I.  I have much respect for him and 
will never forget my day with Mr. Waterfoot. 


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