You don’t know the coyotes are there or how many there are until they hear sirens. And lots of sirens they hear – police sirens, to be exact. As the sirens become louder, the coyotes go into a frenzy of dramatic wales and pathetic howls. These obscure, obnoxious ******* don’t know when to quit. Inconsiderate ******! How dare they interrupt a peaceful suburb that lies beneath a perfect, summer, starlit sky? I decide to do the right thing, the proper thing, the adult/mature thing and that is to simply ignore them. I put to use that lame, half-wit advice given by every parent to every child – if someone makes fun of you or if there’s a monster staring at you from inside your closet, ignore them. Just ignore them, and they’ll go away. So I give it a try after I scream shut-up one last time.
I’ll be ******… Suddenly they’re silent. Not a peep from one of those sons-of-*******. Just the police sirens and they’re getting even louder now.
So I pick up where I left off and begin bouncing up and down on my pogo stick, reciting Shakespearean Sonnets outside her second-story bedroom window. She can be quite clueless at times – especially right now!! It’s like, “Hello??? You probably could hear be me better if your window was open, Silly.”