DISH-PATCH (052): Ner-a is Ver-a Cool…!!

Perhaps this falls into the category of: “Just when you think you know someone…”

And so it was that one day, after doing rounds of their own, JOEY and DOC, members of the LP GANG on a WESTSIDE home stay with former Suit KATIE, return to the GEAR GUY SHED to find a INNER-OFFICE envelope on top of a couple of STICKERMULE packages. The look at each other as if to decide which comes first.

Let’s follow along to find out WHAT. HAPPENS. NEXT… —The Gang

FADE IN:

INT. GEAR GUY’S SHED

Temporary Home (Gear Guy’s Shed)…

DOC
I’m thinking… the envelope. As tempting as the STICKERMULE packages are, at least the envelope can be re-clasped and set back where it was…

JOEY
No harm. No foul. I’m with you, though … the shape of the STICKERMULE… Not stickers or…

DOC
Magnets or pins… Something is up…

JOEY
For sure. Now let’s see what…

DOC
We won!

JOEY
Huh?

DOC
I’ve heard that’s a phrase our Katie uses on the golf course after hitting — during her walk-up to see where her ball landed.

What’d we win ??

JOEY
Which reminds me… Did you see the pictures Zup took of where they’ve been playing… on the beach?

Hint…

Doc shakes his head.

DOC
Love to… But first thing’s first, let’s see…

What’s inside…

Since there are several documents in the envelope, they split up the reading (handing over the completed one in exchange for another).

DOC
Interesting… Makes sense, come to think of it… All of it does…

JOEY
How so…?

DOC
There was this mini bike she was on about that time we went West(er)… when we went exploring near the Seymour Center… tucked away…

Rewind <<< Here:

JOEY
So the other documents…?

DOC
Probably… other modes of transportation to consider…

JOEY
To replicate the feeling…

DOC
I wonder if there are videos of…?

Just then, a RAZR phone slides across the floor like a hockey puck and gently nudges them.

JOEY
What the puck…??

The “puck” is followed by a voice… a familiar one.

FRANKIE
Gentleman! Way ahead of ya! Go on! Press PLAY… And ENJOY !!

And with that, their pal FRANKIE, who had been on MI (as in MAD INVENTOR, TOMMIE) babysitting duty races out the door.

DOC
Uh…

FRANKIE
Thanks for the relief. I’ve been waiting for ya.

JOEY
Thank you! We got it.

DOC
You’re… a Saint…!

Joey nudges Doc.

JOEY
Stop it now. It’ll go to his head and then…

Apparently Frankie, so excited about getting a break, did not hear anything the boys said.

FRANKIE
It’ll be good to get some fresh air.

DOC
Where ya thinkin’ of headin’…?

FRANKIE
WEST… as in CLIFF followed by a sweep through town, I think…

DOC
Nice! We got ya and thanks again for MI DUTY and for THIS…

Doc waves the RAZR.

JOEY
Wait… Hang on Frankie. If we have this, what’re you using to…?

Frankie laughs and waves another RAZR, before racing away.

DOC
A Clone?

JOEY
Perhaps…

FADE OUT.

That’s a Wrap… !

A wrap? Perhaps… But there’s SO much more as we have THE CLIPS (!!) the boys reviewed…

Let’s start with the printout:

…A traveler enjoying a roadside stroll on the outskirts of London in the 1920s wouldn’t have been surprised to hear the pop-pop-pop of a Ner-A-Car motorcycle approaching on a bright afternoon. Ner-A-Cars were a new and exciting development in the motoring world.

Their owners enjoyed “the inspiration of flying on wheels” as they traversed their commute on this long, dark two-wheeled wonder.

What might have surprised the observant traveler was that this Ner-A-Car was manned by a thirty-something woman “sitting bolt upright as if driving a chariot.” …

Yes! That would be our DOSSIE (author of sixteen novels, ten plays, six translations, and twenty-four works of nonfiction, AND an accomplished writer in multiple genres).