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The Predicament

By Miles Gregory

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Excerpt:The next morning, Edna was waiting for Mose at the breakfast table. "Do you remember that pesky skunk, that you were bragging about killing last night?" Mose could feel an ill wind blowing. His swallow of coffee stuck in the back of his throat. After a few seconds had passed, he found the fortitude to feebly answer his wife's probative question. "Yes...." "You have got a terrible mess to clean up in our backyard." "It will only take me a minute. I will tend to it as soon as I'm finished with breakfast." "I think it'll take you a lot more time than a minute to clean up the mess in the backyard. I want you to know, that last night, you killed my Dad's cooler. He left it sitting there, after we made ice cream. There are shards of plastic all over the back yard. Oh by the way, I want you to know that the skunk family is still living happily in the hen house. So, when you go to town to buy my father a new cooler... We can stop and look at those new kitchen stoves that you promised to buy me. In fact, maybe we should stop in and see the eye doctor too. If you can't tell the difference between a skunk and my Dad's cooler... Maybe you have a serious vision problem?" "Sigh..."

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