Mice
Noel Laflin
4-8-18
'Do you like hummingbirds?'I asked the older woman sitting two chairs over.
'Well, yes I do,' she said with a smile.
'You want to see a picture of one?' I ventured, pulling out my phone and opening up a sweetheart of a shot.
'Oh, my!' She said. 'That is lovely! Do you like mice, by chance?'
'Yeah, I do,' I replied. 'I had pet mice as a kid.'
My new friend, Barbara, who couldn't have been a day under eighty, but had the finger dexterity of a teenage girl flipping through pictures on her phone, quickly located what she was looking for.
It was a cute Internet image of a sleeping mouse with a quilt pulled up to its chin.
'That's sweet,' I said, now my turn to smile.
'All creatures great and small,' I concluded.
'But I like mostly small best of all,' she sighed, continuing to sweep the face of her phone and chuckling over more pictures of mice.
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