THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

 

The Doctor 

I wondered where we were going, my parents usually tell me because, I like to know. 

It doesn’t really matter but I like to know, so that I can think about what I am going to do when we arrive. 

Will I just lie on my back and occasionally roll over or will I just lie on my back and occasionally roll over.   

I like to plan ahead. 

I probably would have been a little scared. And I probably should have been. 

But I wasn’t, because I didn’t know. 

Maybe I am like Baloo, the bear from The Jungle Book. When Bagheera and Baloo are trying to get Mowgli back from the monkeys. 

Bagheera tells Baloo that he will need brains not just brawn. 

“That’s okay,” Baloo says “I am loaded with both.”  

JJ Pickletoes is not just brawn, he has brains as well. 

My grandpa Currie says that a friend asked him to help install some drywall, and you know drywall is heavy, he said that he wasn’t just brawn, but he had brains as well. 

The friend told him that was good to know but, today they just needed his brawn. 

Who wants friends like that? 

Well, I guess that is why my parents didn’t tell me where we were going. 

I figured it out, I recognized the building. 

I had been here before. 

The waiting room is nice, and I visited with some of the other children that were waiting.  

They called us all to come in. 

“Please follow me.” 

Then they put us all in the room. The little room. 

It did make me feel better knowing that all three of us had appointments. 

I am sure mine was the worst. 

I didn’t think they would do that to me, have you seen the size of them. Not just one today but two. 

I can be tricked for the first one, but I knew that the next on was coming, and I wasn’t happy about it. 

And I let them know. 

Needles. 

I got two needles. 

They were as big as sticks, big sticks. 

I think they were bigger than my mom’s corn plants. 

Two needles in one day, can you believe it? 

I guess it is part of growing up. 

Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t really like but it has to be done. 

So, you just do it. 

I have heard someone wise say. 

‘’What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, ……… 

Except Bears.’’ 

That was one exciting thing that I did this week. 

I wonder what adventure I will have next time?