[background]
fisher and mommie are having a very pleasant day, sand, toys, dvd’s, food, napping, everything a little boy could want.

[scene 1 – homestead, late afternoon]
mommie train track, carseat, okay? Sure, fisher, we can go see if there is a train in town, we have to go anyways to do errands.

mommie and fisher pack up to do groceries and errands in town.

[scene 2 – inside car]
fisher for the first time ever, does not want to get out of the car. Presumably, because he was really intent on his cars and trains on his table in the carseat, or because we didn’t go over the train tracks yet. mommie explained that we had to go to the post office first, and then groceries, and then she PROMISED we would go over the train tracks and see if there was a train.

fisher reluctantly gets out of car, carrying as many trucks and cars as his little hands could carry.

[scene 3 – parking lot]
fisher puts all of trucks and cars in mommies backpack, 5 feet from the truck. They walk to the post office to the tune of “push cart, push cart”.. smiles from various speeding motorists as they travel thru a very busy parking lot.

[scene 4 – post office]
door opens EVER SO SLOWLY behind a man with a walker and oxygen, this has to be explained to fisher, WAIT, be patient, let him go first.

“push cart, push cart”, yes fisher, you can push the cart, he strolls away with the cart, crashing into displays. 4ft into the store is the milk on sale (3.99) mommie is happy, this is a dollar savings from the Independent stores. She picks up the 2% and puts it in the drunken cart.

[dim lights, silence]
no,no,no,no,no,no milk. SCREAM.

[mommie’s patient moment]
fisher, ask nicely, no need to scream, what do you want?
MILK OUT, push cart, nono, out, out, SCREAM, banging his head on the cart handle (which mommie was blocking with her hand). to his knees on the floor, crying, screaming. In the background, some giggling, some hushes, some pointing fingers. I say to him and the crowd – look everyone’s watching you have a fit. LITERALLY, smashes his head on the tile floor in frustration. Now the screaming is real – everyone stops and gasps, because of course, we’re right at the cashier lines, where a crowd has gathered to watch the spectacle, one lady is selling 50/50 tickets. He pauses and then WAILS, real tears now, not just crocodiles.

[scene 5 – up lights, queue music]
Suddenly he wants a hug, hug given. Milk removed from the cart, bruise forms on forehead, pushes empty cart, with one tear in his eye and a reluctant smile growing across his face. mommie sighs. crowd disperses, murmuring.

[epilogue]
after errands, mommie fulfills promise, and as they exit the parking lot, a train whistle can be heard in the distance. they drive to the train crossing to watch the train go by. the smile becomes permanent on the face of the fisherprince. mommie sighs again.

the end.

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