Another long day at school
and you can't wait to get back
to your nice cozy home with your
mother, father and sister.
What would you like to do?
Yes you know now!
The classic game that has
burst into stores everywhere.
Mouse Trap.
But alas you cannot.
Your mother sends you to the kitchen
and orders you to do your homework.
You never do have a chance to play
Mouse Trap that night because
something happened that night
something that has changed the future
forever.
No not those TV dinners your mother whipped up
before watching Lucy.
Not the fact that your dog has knocked over
your favorite game Mouse Trap.
Lucy was cancelled.
Static had been sent over NBC.
But if your dog hadn't
knocked over the mouse trap game or
your mother hadn't tripped over the game
and dropped the lasagna.
Or your mother didn't decide to get the TV dinners.
Or if Lucy wasn't cancelled.
Or if NBC was clearer instead of staticy.
Or if you didn't have homework so you did play Mouse Trap
and you moved it so your dog wouldn't knock it over and
ruin the lasagna that went over the TV to cause
the static and have the TV dinners which made
Lucille Ball get sick to cancel Lucy.
You wouldn't have witnessed history.
The only channel available was ABC National News.
And what you saw was one quote that did change the
future forever.
"One small step for man."
"One giant leap for mankind."
Yes so simple.
Yet so intelligent.
Those few simple words uttered by
Neil Armstrong changed
the future forever.
He landed on the moon.
Not much more than that.
Check out this site to see the moon:
Google Moon
Quite a cool take on it. Mousetrap, Lucy, TV dinners. Time travel to space travel! :)
ReplyDeleteNow I need to go find a copy of Mousetrap.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post. I really enjoyed it - and the link. Apparently Jeff has no idea that Mousetrap is a game, not a book LOL
ReplyDeleteOne small quote for Armstrong\One great recollection for you.
ReplyDeletevery nicely played...loved your flow and pacing...
ReplyDeleteI loved Mousetrap! That was an awesome game that I never had but always played at friends' houses, leaving completely jealous! Really neat stacking of images.
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