by Chloe Cole

Created on: March 27, 2009

My Poor Foot!

My husband has this one foot, his right one, that used to live in fear of his unfortunate luck! The year was 1999 the end of a Millennium. The world was in a uproar of panic over Y2K ... The only thing that had a right to panic that year was Brandon's foot !

The day we moved into our apartment on the river started it all! It was the hottest day of that year and we had been moving since day break. It was a long hot miserable move! For starters the moving truck we rented broke down on the first trip to the new apartment. Brandon had a 2 friends come over that day to help us. We had loaded both trucks and sent the boys to the new place while I rounded up the pets for the move. After carefully securing the 55 gallon fish tank in the back of the truck he wrapped the snake around his neck, I stuck the iguana in a pillow case, grabed the cat, we all piled into the truck and headed down the road. Half way there the truck started making this terrible sound the temp skyrocketed and died on the side of a somewhat rural section of I-94, the nearest exit was a 4 mile hike. It was my job to stay with the truck, most of our worldly possessions and our beloved pets while he walked to the nearest pay phone to call Uhaul's service center. Sam Kitty was freaked out glued to the back off the seat fur fluffed out, hissing at everything, and panting loudly. H, the snake, refused to stay around my neck, he spent our time together by slithering off into various hiding spots. Egore, the iguana, was agitated by the confines of his pillow case and kept whipping his tail and thrashing about. It was somewhat entertaining to watch a furious pillow case roll around the floor boards but the fun stopped when I checked on the fish to find them running out of air. OH NO! He loves those stupid fish!, I thought. So...for the next hour,or so, I sat in the back of a sweat box blowing air into a gross fish tube in effort to save their tiny little lives.

Finally a Uhaul truck and a tow truck pulled up behind me, but Brandon was not inside either vehicle. Then, after sometime had past, far off in the distance I see a tall lanky figure limping on the side of the road heading our way. OH dear god! What has happened to him? Apparently, he found himself on a small adventure! He jogged all the way to the exit and up to the gas station with no problem. However, that's as far as he luck took him. He didn't have any change so he had to wait in line inside the packed gas station, that didn't have

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