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King Friday

The Mr. Rogers website has the following description of King Friday:
“King Friday XIII rules the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He demands - and often gets - respect from everyone, but underneath his stern and sometimes unreasonable exterior is a caring person who wants the best for his family and his kingdom.”

Sometimes unreasonable? Is it me, or didn’t King Friday used to be sort of a whack-job with a bunch of idiotic ideas, while Queen Saturday rolled her eyes and said “Ye-us deah,” in her Southern drawl?

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I went to an auction yesterday and had an absolute ball. I mean, actually what happened was I was 14 hours away from getting my period and Todd asked me to please go find something to do that didn’t involve being in the house as I was snarling at not only Todd, but kittens and puppies and rainbows, and luckily it was too late to see the town’s one movie, as I found out later it was about car racing, which puts it one step below Dumb and Dumber in my movie rating system. Where was I?

Oh, so I went to the auction instead and watched all kinds of bizarre objects being sold - way weirder than eBay - and someone who bought a “Personal Check Writer” (a machine that types your checks for you) for $1 just to find out what it was, as she couldn’t see it very well from her seat.