Redoubled by Esby Warren

Author:Esby, Warren [Esby, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Ben and Edy needed to go back to Washington to discuss the whole matter with the powers that be and told us they would let us know what the plans were after we got back to Pittsboro. We decided to keep the SUV and drive back there with Muffy. Cleveland is only a day’s drive from Pittsboro and we introduced Muffy to her new, temporary home that evening. She had been very good on the trip and slept for most of it in the back seat. The house in Pittsboro had a big yard and Muffy seemed content when we let her out to just do her business and not wander too far away from us.

We had a pleasant few days together after we returned and before we heard from Ben and Edy. We had checked with our landlady when we got back and told her we now had a dog. She said that was okay since she liked dogs and had owned one most of her life. She had thought about getting one for company after her husband died but had not done so as yet. She and Muffy hit it off and she offered to dog sit for us whenever we went out. We took her up on her offer and let her take Muffy with her on her trip to the various yard sales and flea markets the next day, which was a Saturday, to see how that would work out. When she came back midday, she told us that she really enjoyed having a bigger dog than the other lady with the small white poodle, so we knew her competitive juices were still flowing. Ben and Edy called and told us they’d like to have us come with them to England, and we arranged to have Muffy stay with our landlady who was very happy at the prospect. We left from Raleigh-Durham airport the following day.

Ben and Edy had arranged to have a car and driver pick us up at the airport and take us to meet them in Oxford at a hotel called the Randolph which was in the middle of Oxford. Although I knew that the Brits drove on the left side of the road, it was nevertheless disconcerting to me when I got into the limousine and sat next to the driver in what would ordinarily be the driver’s seat in America. Anya sat in the back behind the driver.

So I said to the driver, “You know that you are driving on the wrong side of the road. The left side is not the right side.”

He responded, “Yes it is, Mate. Over here the left side is the right side, and the right side is the wrong side. You blokes drive on the wrong side over there.”

“Not true. We drive on the right side, which is the right side, and you drive on the left side which isn’t the right side. It’s the wrong side. Left isn’t right and we’re right. Left is only right here, and left isn’t right in the rest of the world either.

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