On
the early hours of a cold Saturday morning, Miss Pegg woke up from an
overwhelmingly vivid dream where she had
misstated the Mayor’s cat’s name. Her eyes were wide open and a sweat drop ran
through her back as she sat down on her bed. Three Mayors ago, a contributor
for the politics’ section of the second most read newspaper of the region,
wrote a column about the Mayor’s daily life, where the family dog took center
stage. Being a fervid dog person, the Mayor and his crisis team went on a
rampage against the newspaper, which resulted on a collective apology from
everyone at the newspaper, and a personal apology from the contributor, who,
after much consideration and restless nights, had to resign from his coveted
position, and started a bird house business on the outskirts of the city.
With that story in mind, Miss Pegg tried to calm herself down by folding her
socks correctly, and checked that day’s articles on the political page. To her
dismay, her dream was not only true, but it was worst than imagined. Just like
every Sunday, a clever analytic article on local politics was published as a
way of distracting the readers from more serious news, such as the
reconstruction of a lion-like statue with no eyes, or the overspending of the
parks department’s secretary on high quality napkins.
That day’s article was about the mysterious and oh-so-interesting details of
the Mayor’s residence and its inhabitants, including O.J., the distinguished
family cat. Being a fervid cat person, the Mayor trusted O.J. to fix his own
problems, and he certainly did.
When Miss Pegg realized that they had misstated O.J.’s name, by calling him
P.J., she knew she had to verify the correct spelling, and punctuation of his
actual name, so she sneaked into the Mayor’s residence at 12:34 p.m., to check
on the cat’s name tag. The iron fence was
too narrow, and Miss Pegg got stuck in between two posts right after verifying
the cat’s tag, unable to move, while O.J. pranced right in front of her, knowing that he
had fixed it all, including punishing the human.
Even though the original mistake was caused by typing P instead of O because of their proximity on the keyboard, Miss Pegg knew this was definitely a triumph over ignorance and careless writing. Definitely. The newspaper
was still safe from scrutiny, and harmful political revenge.
