Stupid sock puppet...Good SPOT!

Things that go bump in the night...usually turn out less scary than they really are.

I have to laugh about the car commercial about the sock puppet and it's friends....at least now-a-days...but when I was small, yeah, really smaller...ha. My grandma made me a sock puppet to play with at their house. Believe it or not, socks even back then were the same color as the sock puppet on tv now...the socks were woven and thick for winter. When socks got worn out they became useful in other ways, then, sock puppets were one use...oh yeah, I can already hear laughter from you, but just wait, I promise a much better belly laugh before this story ends. watching this commercial I got lost in it's story conveyed on tv...how they wind up driving an all like they are partying? I had to ask, "What the hell is happening in this commercial I wasn't getting?" Got distracted by childhood woes...so I was told you see they are having a good time in the car. "OH." Was my reply. I had one of these sock puppets, brought it home that year from grandmas and loved it like nothing better in life. Dragged it everywhere I went. Was my buddy. Until one night I was mad and had left it on the corner of a dresser by my bed. Usually was in bed with me. Outside my bedroom window was this tin roof that covered the downstairs back porch area. We were having a really bad rain storm passing thru that night and the window was left up slightly because the rain was coming in, and too hot to close completely. Without thinking about the sock puppet, I reached over turned out my light an settled in for the night. I was little an scared of these types of storms so even if it were 100*, (degrees), I'd be wrapped up to my neck in covers. When I rolled over towards the wallside of my bed there was this silhouette of a figure on my wall. I looked at it to try to see what it was but the drapes began to blow from the wind across the front of it and I couldn't make out what it was so I hid under the covers. When I peeked back out suddenly this thing had wings an was moving slowly across my wall, I ducked back under the covers hoping whatever it was, was going to believe I was asleep and wasn't looking at it. Then I heard a noise in the hallway an thought it was my dad playing a joke on me...but when I moved in my bed the covers moved as I was saying,"dad is that you?" Knocking the sock puppet into an angle upside down on the dresser, at the same time the wind draft caught the curtain, a bolt of lighting hit the tin roof, and I bolted out of the bed, down the stairs screaming there was something awful in my room trying to get in. Mom and dad came to see what it was and when they turned on the lights, there was the stupid sock puppet stuck an caught up in the damn curtain. Need I tell you, that puppet came to no good end the next day...I gave the puppet to my dog spot who hated it since I brought it home, GOOD SPOT. Best dog I ever had and turned out to be my best friend. We sell these puppets in our store since Christmas, and had it show up near me several times...ha-ha-ha-ha, yeah funny now, but not so funny then..I get plenty of laughs when my co-workers see me coming back to their department carrying this stupid puppet with the 'LOOK'. LOL...Nite everybody...

Author's Note

Just a childhood tale...one of many about me. I hope you enjoy.