Dr Fixit (141 - 150)
141 seven formed a week in my generation. The seventh day was sacred but a counter notion was embedded somewhere in the Holy Book: who had a chicken escaped from the coop and would not chase on the sacred day? Some quoted this portion to lay a cover on their laxity to observe the non-work dictate every believer is served. But Ahdet, in grandma's days, was the eight and sacred day and it is widely said 142 who ventured to the wood or farm to work had themselves to blame. They were sucked like water through a pipe into the other world and only through sacrifice and the word of an ahbiah hebuck were they brought back. From both faiths, my grandma wasn't slack. She had often quoted me a passage from the scripture: when faced with the rage of a foe, change colours like the chameleon to stay alive. When I'd said the notion 143 with an army ant was unrealistic, she had laughed and said the idea pragmatic from the concept, ...