The Explanation

Midge crawled out her doggie door and hurried to Booker-T's house. As she entered the yard, she called out to him. “Booker-T!” called Midge. “Where are you? Are you still sleeping?”

“I'm awake,” replied Booker-T as he crawled through his doggie door and met Midge outside. “what are you doing?”

“Let's go to Jake's house,” said Midge.

“What do you want to do today?” asked Booker-T.

“I want to do something that is fun,” said Midge. “Humans always have lot of fun and I want to do something fun too.”

“Maybe Jake can think of something fun,” suggested Booker-T as they walked along the sidewalk going to Jake's house.

“He always wants to do things to be careful,” said Midge. “I want to do something fun and risky, don't you?”

“Risky isn't good, Midge,” said Booker-T.

“Well we could do something risky and fun and still be careful,” suggested Midge.

“Jake doesn't want you to get hurt, Midge,” said Booker-T. “I don't want you to get hurt either.”

“Humans do it,” said Midge.

“But humans can do the human things and we are just animals with 4 feet and no hands,” said Booker-T.

“I know,” sighed Midge. “But we are smart too, just like the humans are, don't you think so?”

“We are smart,” agreed Booker-T. “But we aren't built the same as humans so they can do things we can't do.”

“What can they do that we can't?” asked Midge. “Explain.”

“Well,” said Booker-T. “They can ride a motorcycle because they have two legs with feet and two hands to hold onto the handlebars.”

“There must be something that we animals can do that humans can't do,” said Midge.

“Well, lets see,” said Booker-T. “Can they eat a bone?”

“Maybe not,” smiled Midge. “I think those hard bones would break their teeth if they tried to eat them. So we can eat bones and they can't. I think they can do a lot more things than we can do.”

Booker-T and Midge entered Jake's yard and found him sitting on the porch swing.

“What are you two talking about?” asked Jake.

“We were talking about what kind of things we do as animals that humans can't do,” said Midge.

“I think most of the things we can do,” said Booker-T. “The humans can do them too.”

“I think you are right, Booker-T,” said Jake. “The only thing I can think of right now is we can eat bones and they can't.”

“That's what I said,” smiled Booker-T.

“I guess that is why humans are better than we are,” sighed Midge. “But I really like to try and do what they do. They do a lot of fun things, Jake.”

“Do you remember all the fun we had last year?” asked Booker-T. “Trying to do what humans do?”

“It was fun wasn't it?” asked Midge. “Maybe we can try some of them again.”

“Like what?” asked Jake raising his eyebrows.

“I want to slide down the big slide at the water park again,” said Midge.

“You must have forgotten about the security guard who chased us out of the park,” said Jake.

“They haven't opened the park for the summer yet, Jake,” said Midge. “Maybe the guard isn't there yet.”

“I don't think there is any water in the pond in the park yet,” said Booker-T.

“Did you see that little horse in the back yard at your neighbor's house?” asked Midge.

“That's a rocking horse for the little boy over there,” said Jake.

“Lets go ride it,” said Midge.

“You can't ride it,” said Jake. “Your feet won't touch the ground.”

“I can sit on the top and you can make it rock,” suggested Midge. “I will rock it for you to ride on it, Jake.”

“Okay,” said Jake. “lets go try it out.”

They ran across the street and Midge jumped on the rocking horse. Jake pushed on it to make it rock, but he did it too fast and Midge flew off the back of the horse. She lay on the ground with her feet in the air.

“Midge!” screamed Jake. “Are you okay?”

“I'm okay,” said Midge as she rolled over and stood up.

They looked over at Booker-T and he was laying on the ground laughing. “That was really funny,”
laughed Booker-T.  "See there, you can fly better than Gabby.  You flew backwards."

Midge and Jake looked at each other and started laughing with him..

“I think we better find something else to do,” said Midge.