MIDNIGHT TUNNEL RAT CAPER AND THAT FAMOUS ROBERT DUVALL LINE
One minus 18 evening in Toronto Bob and I finished watching the CBC national news which Bob turned off in disgust. Imagine Adrienne Arsenault the anchor saying Alexander the Great was Macedonian? He was Greek and considered himself Greek!
I slipped out the back door and Bob called me in at 23:30 but as I was having so much fun tearing around in the snow I “didn’t hear him”. When I did hear him his tone of voice was angry. I thought he’d cool down a bit if I romped around a bit more. All was quiet for 15 minutes until at midnight I heard an ultimatum being delivered “COME IN RIGHT NOW!” Oooh I think that means trouble and Bob came charging out….yes I could see him in the frigid moonlight struggling in the snow in his boots and pajamas. I dodged to and fro and like an American soldier tunnel rat in Vietnam zipping in and around my snow tunnels until a furious Bob caught me delivering a blistering tongue lashing. The mortality rate of tunnel rats in Vietnam was close to 90%. I escaped death. I just hope I remember this experience, so it won’t happen again.
Speaking of Vietnam my favourite line in that war movie “Chickenpox Now” was by Robert Duvall that he loved the smell of napalm in the morning. Well for me it is, “I love the smell of toasted bagels in the morning.” Bob gave me a piece the next morning so I guess we are friends again. I love the crunch but those sesame seeds stick to my gums!
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