This is a true story. Kolter was living in his ‘beautiful’ home. It had a huge green area. It was the part of the house that he never worked on. He never cut the lawn or picked up the fallen leaves. The only thing that he did there was putting a strong fence around of his property to protect it against small invaders. To protect against people Kolter had decided to put everything that he had in his storage place in there. It turned his backyard into a storage place once again Kolter saved money. Kolter threw all his precious memories there. Everything that he had collected for so many years was now lying in his lawn.
Kolter was happy to be able to make a good use of his place. Many of his neighbors weren’t so happy. They didn’t like to live close to a junkyard. But, some of them liked it a lot, because they didn’t need to pay someone to carry away their junks. They just needed to wait getting dark to throw their goods in there. Every morning Kolter was checking if he had received any gifts from the sky. This was how Kolter had furnished his house. Since his backyard became a junkyard he didn’t have to buy not even one appliance for his house.
Weekends were thrilling for Kolter because, that was the period for the garage sales happen. He couldn’t wait for the next day to see if he was lucky. But, his payday happened when a neighbor needed to move out and decided put everything for sale. Everyone was sad, because the greatest neighbor ever was moving to a retirement home. But all of them including Kolter were excited about that huge sale. That man had all kind of fancy things. He always looked for quality it didn’t matter how expensive it was.
Kolter was a step ahead of his neighbors. Kolter had a secret weapon on his hands, literally! He had a spy, someone really small who could easily have access to confidential information about that sale. Kolter gave a mission to George. He had to check how much that giant plasma TV would be sold for. Kolter planned to go early in the morning and to take home that precious thing. But he needed to know, if he could afford it. George, the brave, took that mission seriously. He packed a bag to be ready for any situation.
George went to the house. His first step was to avoid the stinky cat that lives over there. George used all the science in his favor to make the cat go to a cage by chasing a tuna fish sandwich. The perimeter is clear said George to Kolter in the other line of the walkie-talkie. The walkie-talkies were two tin cans attached to each other with a string and they had a picture of little bunny Foo Foo on. George reached the TV room. Then he wrote down the price. George was ready to leave the house, but before he did a quickly visit to the kitchen. ‘Oh my God!’ George said when he crossed that place. ‘Am I dead? Is this the paradise?’ thought George. He couldn’t believe that man had all kinds of cheese. George left the house, after he realized all his wildest dreams with cheese.
Kolter was very worried about the amount needed to buy the TV. Kolter was saying over and over that the amount must be unbelievable to keep George silent for so many hours. Kolter was hopeless when he went to bed. In the afternoon when Kolter woke up, he didn’t trust his eyes. George was the size of a St. Bernard dog. George was barely breathing, but he had a huge smile on his furred face, but not bigger than the one on Kolter’s face when he looked into his backyard. Everything inside of that neighbor’s house was placed on Kolter’s property.
Kolter went to check with the neighbors about what happened. No one was sure what really happened. They just knew that the nice man had lost his mind. He was completely nuts. He was talking about a talkative monster, which he called a cheese eater. He was completely disturbed. Nobody understood how that gentleman could be such a freak. People said that he kept his cat in a cage and he did weird things with cheese. So that explained why all that free stuff was doing on Kolter’s backyard. The sale was cancelled because no one wanted to own anything from that bizarre guy. Kolter didn’t say a word. He knew there was something wrong, but he wasn’t sure what part of that story had George’s paw on it.
Kolter wanted to talk with George before he went to deal with the authorities. He waited for George to wake up. But after 2 days, he used a hose to wake George up. Kolter interrogated him looking for the truth. To every question that Kolter asked George had a similar response, e.g. I’m not sure! I don’t remember! Could you be more specific? Can you repeat the question? I don’t know what are you talking about! George was almost asking for a lawyer when he suddenly answered the following questions with, Who are you? Who is George? What is cheese? After those clearly signs of amnesia, Kolter couldn’t turn George in. Kolter knew that if his friend was like that, it was his responsibility. He shouldn’t ask him to break into that man’s house.
But Kolter knew too that he needed to take advantage of George’s faking amnesia. At least for once, it wasn’t entirely Kolter’s fault. And it doesn’t matter what will take. George will confess everything. It’s just a question of time. Because Kolter was ready to make George’s life like hell if he needs to. To begin with, he told George about his allergic problem. George cannot eat any cheese or foods with cheese flavor. There will be no free time for George because he is going to be told that he loves to work 24/7. Now it is Kolter’s turn to teach him a lesson. He will teach George that the amnesia excuse can only be used in extreme situations.
Eliane
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