They found a dinner opened for breakfast
Slim asked, “did you figure out why we cannot speak?”
Gary said,”No! This I do not understand.”
They walked in silent through the trees until they came to a road, leading them into a town , there they found a dinner opened for breakfast, they went in. The first thing that hit them was the strong aroma of coffee, then grease, it was all at once they shudder at the smell, then taking a seat at the counter, picking up menus.
An older woman wearing an apron and a cap approached them. She said, “Good morning boys, what will it be?”
They watched as she licked the tip of the pencil reading to jot down their order, as she said, “coffee?” then she licked the pencil again.
Gary opened his mouth but nothing came out, so he mindwaved to Slim. “Is she going to eat that or what?”
“No Gary. but I am waiting for her to bite down, maybe clean her teeth.”
They both laughed as they looked to the woman with the pencil, then to each other, then back to her, until she said, “Fred, I think we have a couple of jokers out here.”
Slim and Gary quit with the laughter when an older man, looking like a sumo-wrestler walked out from the kitchen, wearing his dirty apron, holding a spatula, saying, “you boys looking for a little trouble here?”
With wide eyes planted on their faces, Slim and Gary shook their heads at the same time, no. Then the big bruit asked, “then what will it be.” He put down the egg flipper taking the pencil and pad from the woman.
Then Gary mind waved to Slim really fast, “What do you think, will he lick it?”
Slim laughed out loud shaking his head no, scratching up near his right temple, scratching his right eye and rubbing his nose. This caused Gary to start giggling, then mind waved to his laughing friend, who is sitting there waiting to see if the big man is going to lick the pencil, “Well he is isn’t he? Wait. Watch for it. Now? Now. Maybe now?”
This did not go over well with the owners of the dinner, still waiting to take their orders. Then Gary started to sniff the air, so the woman started to sniff, then Slim turned to the kitchen area, causing the man to drop what he was doing, running off to take care of the fire coming from the burning food on the grill. Seconds later smoldering black smoke found its way out to the seating section, where one of the other customers got up, opening the door, allowing the harsh vaporous air to clean. Then Gary mind waved to Slim saying, “it is a good thing we stopped here then.”
Slim frowned, using his telepathy. “How is this good, these humans are not happy with us.”
“Well they should be,” Gary said. “We saved this place from burning to the ground.”
Slim Laughed out loud, “No Gary. We caused it.”
The cook came back to confront the guys, he did not look happy at all. Quickly Slim picked up the plastic book, ordering bacon and eggs with toast, by pointing to a picture in the menu. Everyone stayed quiet for moments, then the old woman said, “Fred! I think we have us some deaf mutes here.”
Gary and Slim looked to each other. “Deaf-mute? What is this?”
Fred came to the table watching down at the boys, as everyone else in the established became concerned and now listening, waiting and watching as to what is going to happen next.
But they do not have a hearing problem, as the matter of fact, they can hear a mile off into any direction they want to be hearing in, at any given moment. But they allowed this place to think they were deaf mutes, as long as they got their cooked meal.
The woman motioned for them to follow her to a table by the window where she set them up with placemats, salt, pepper, and ketchup, giving them utensils wrapped up in a red checkered napkin.
She left coming back with a warm smile carrying two glasses of water for them. This made the boys feel welcome, so they smiled back at her, causing her eyes to flutter at the brightness of their teeth. She said, “oh my, I don’t think I have ever seen white teeth as you boys have. Whatever do you use?”
Oh bother, this caused Slim and Gary to wonder. Gary spread his lips showing his teeth to Slim, mind waving, “are they white? Let me see yours.”
Slim did. They both sat there with wide toothy smiles, mind waving back and forth, using hand gestures, while some customers continued to watch these two strange young men, giving chuckles or smiles.
Soon, the happy old woman returned with two plates of food, placing one down in front of each of them. The guys smiled up at her while nodding, yes.
They started to unwrap the forks, getting ready to eat, when Gary gave a mind wave with a furrowed brow, “this smells like.” He stopped. Looked to Slim, then sniffed his plate, “this smells like.”
Slim did not wait for his friend to think, he wanted to eat, so he took a piece of bacon into his mouth, biting down, then stopped. That is when Gary said, “it smells like it smelled, when we walked in.”
Slim gagged spitting out the fried food, as Gary cut a piece of the egg putting it into his mouth chewing, swallowing, while Slim tried the same thing. They tried some toast with more egg, not touching the bacon.
People watched as they both took up the glass of water drinking, and just like that, they both spit it out, standing up from the table really fast, some people laughed, whispering things, while others found this outrageous behavior.
The woman came speeding over drying her hands on her apron. “What’s the matter with you boys,” she said. Both of them pointed down to their plates making nasty faces of vulgarities, where she became upset and yelled. “Get out of my dinner, now! Well I never. Go! Get out! Fred.”
The guys left the dinner before Fred could come over to them, they ran like the wind back to the trees as Gary used his telepathy. “This is not a place for us. We must only eat raw meat and drink of the pure river water.” But Slim said nothing, just ran. They could hear the man yelling at them, “and don’t ever come back here any more.”
As time passed they complained how their stomachs hurt, then one after another they had to vomit out this human food which refused to break down to enter into their intestines. They were happy to see the river.
“Boy they were mad,” said Gary.
They both lay under the cool water falling into a sleep. There, they would stay until morning.
The End
A small piece taken out of a book -BUZZER.
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