In all fairness, I have to admit; the transition was a pretty smooth one. Ashlee and the Stefanis allowed me to keep my mini-mansion, and all its furnishings. With one slight alteration.
At Gwen's house, whenever I'd wanted to descend to the floor, I had merely slid down a long stretch of orange Hot Wheels track, using a chamois cloth for a toboggan. Or, if I was in the mood for a greater adrenalin rush, I had bunjee-jumped...using an elastic band and a kite string! Then, later, when I wished to reascend, I had merely climbed a long piece of clothes-line that Gavin had kindly knotted every foot or so. No such luck, at Ashlee's place, though.
The first time I tried bunjee-jumping off the guest-room table top, at her place, Blondie mistook me for a frigging tetherball!
When Ashlee had calmed down enough, to stop yelling at me, we compromised. From that point on, whenever I wanted to descend to the floor--or climb back up from it--on my own, I would use...a Habitrail tunnel.
Needless to say, I felt like frigging Hamtaro. Still, it was better than nothing. And, it did protect me from her over-affectionate maltipoo! On Columbus Day, however, I took it easy. I spent most of the afternoon watching TV Land's salute to an unsung Italian-American hero of the performing arts...Victor Buono.
Every TV show of the Sixties and early Seventies he had appeared on, they telecast it. His ODD COUPLE performance as an orthodontist-turned-exorcist. His two guest-shots on the original WILD WILD WEST as the evil magician, Count Manzeppi. And, of course, his every confrontation, with Batman and Robin, as King Tut.
I told Ashlee as much when she knocked on my detachable roof, and asked what I was doing.
"OH!" she exclaimed: "I love that show. Which episode is it?"
"Right now? The third season one-shot where he accidentally discovers the Batcave beneath Wayne Manor. And, get this! His hench-wench in the episode? An actress named Angela Dorian, playing a Damon Runyon-esque belly dancer called...Florence of Arabia."
"Oh, brother!" she winced: "She must have been desperate for acting cred if she agreed to appear as a character with a name like _that_."
I rebutted this by quoting King Tut's line about "Florence's" assets outweighing her liabilities.
"English translation?" said Ashlee: "You think she's hot."
"Well, she was certainly stacked in the Sixties."
She got me back for that on Halloween.
tbc
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