guess what I had to do

Among my many jobs, I get to do some pretty interesting things. And this saturday was no dissappointment. I went in early for a morning shift at the good ol'B&N (barnes and noble) and was grabbed by my co-worker Emily who took me to a large sealed crate in the back room. Days like this USUALLY do not start out well, but I went along with it. She then stated: "Guess who you get to be today during storytime!!!" I wasn't sure I wanted to know, but due to my fear of masks and especially mascot costumes, I agreed that it was a better idea for me to be the "man behind the mask"rather than the woman who ran away from it. That's right...I was to be Curious George for all the little children at storytime.

I got to wear a fat suit underneath and there was certainly no seeing out of that head. Emily led me around by the paw as I proceeded to knock several books off the shelves. But when the children approached me, I froze! I had no idea what I was supposed to do! What if I walked towards them and they screamed! So when the first child walked up, all I could think to do was shake their hand like I was some cheezy politician. My co-workers got really tickled and its a miracle that I didn't shout out, "Hey, shut up, Emily!" I was also really afraid to move around too much, because we were not too successful at securing my over-sized head, and I was worried it would fall off and terrorize some poor child, much like I was probably terrorized in my youth, leading to this irrational fear of masks.