February 25, 2012- Cute Doggie
We were living in our old apartment. Grandma next door was
visiting us. In this reality, she got along well with Mom. It was the early
90s. Grandma never had a stroke and my parents were still together. Dad was
working at GM- he never took the buyout like in the real world. He’d be able to
retire in a couple of years. He wasn’t a control freak here either.
We had our Buffy
spaniel. She was healthy and a few years old. I was surprised and a little
disappointed that Ginger wasn’t a part of this; she’s hardly in these holodeck
programs.
Grandma’s friend
Ellie gave her an adorable beagle puppy. I was playing with him in the living
room. She had just gotten him the day before. Grandma hadn’t given him a name
yet. She said that she was going to give him to us and that we could choose the
name. She was the one who had given Ginger her name.
This doggie seemed
to like me a lot. I was having trouble coming up with a name for him though.
Mike was trying to help me. He suggested the name Eli- as in Manning of the
Giants. I laughed and said “What about Peyton?” I forget what team his brother plays for-
Colts?
The time line was
strange here- even though it was the early 90s stuff from the present day was
part of the program.
Other names
mentioned-Skippy, Scooter, Buddy, Rex and Simon (as in Le Bon of Duran
Duran).Mike tried singing “The Reflex” then. None of them were sounding right
for this puppy.
Buffy was a little
jealous of him at first but then they were playing together. Buffy had her
tennis ball and the beagle was trying to get it away from her. As I watched
them, I was smiling on the inside.
That’s when I was
thinking about Snoopy of the Peanuts cartoon. Why hadn’t I thought to name him
after this famous beagle much sooner? Mike agreed on this name and also said
that he should have thought of this too.
Grandma was talking
to Mom about having us over for dinner the next evening- she’d be making
stuffed cabbage. Yummy! Mike asked if she’d make potato pancakes too. He loves
her recipe for this and wishes that he had it.
Dad got home from
work about 40 minutes later. He treated Buffy and Snoopy nicely. I found out
that Ginger had lived a few years longer in this reality. She had died of a
weak heart which is also sad but not as terrible as Dad never paying to find
out what was causing her sickness and just having her put to sleep in reality.
My brother and I
listened to an afternoon Yankees game on the radio. He wasn’t even teasing me
about Mattingly which was good. And he wasn’t throwing a fit when they lost
like the real Mike would do.
The next morning,
we took our doggies for a walk around town. It was a lovely June day. I did
wonder why neither of us was working or going to school but nobody seemed to
think that this was strange. Maybe we were both on vacation. These details
weren’t really a part of the program though.
Mike and I were
in our late teens, which also were off in the time line by like 2-3 years. We
should have been in our early 20s. This storyline was interesting and I was
glad that I got to be with the ideal version of my family.
I went outside after grandma’s delicious
dinner; I was only in her yard for about 35 seconds when the scenery suddenly
started changing. I was standing on the deck in our yard in our current
apartment back on Earth where I had been before I had been transported to the
holodeck.
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