Al Coyote didn't have to be in work Wednesday morning. Al was scheduled to report to work in the evening to continue assisting with further tests on that turbo charger being developed for the military...Al Coyote, Greg Otter and Poindexter Fox, who were engaged on the project, had plans that evening to actually install the prototype in a jeep the Army had lent to Horizon Innovations to run the tests. Al didn't have to be at work until that evening, so after the cubs were on their way to school, Al and Marge walked over to the W. M. Hindi store there in Duran, and had them order a bed from a Sears catalog for Clarence. Being still February in New Mexico, it was pretty cold that morning of the 17th...28 degrees F, but not as cold as some other mornings had been. After Al and Marge arrive at the store, where it was nice and warm inside out of that cold weather, they picked out a nice bed frame, box spring and mattress from the Sears catalog like the beds that Jed, Rex and Donna have...As for bedding each night, Clarence Coyote would no longer have to come to except continuing to sleep on the pull out sofa bed in the living room as his bed. Once the order for the bed was placed, the clerk who took the order, Zachery Bobcat Sr., said to Al and Marge, "The bed should be here in about three business days...With the weekend coming up, that should put it on Monday getting here". "I know Clarence will be happy to see that bed", said Marge. "It's a lot nicer than that pull-out couch you told me Clarence sleeps on", Zachery mentioned as he gave Al his change from the deposit, the receipt, and several S&H Green Stamps that comes with purchases made in the store. "Let's let it be a surprise for him", Al suggested to Marge, which she agreed not to tell Clarence about the bed until it arrives. Marge then suggested to Al, "You know that with Clarence's toys being...You know..." "Oh yea", Al replied, knowing that Marge was referring to the fact that any toy trucks and cars Clarence's owns are not with him right now in 1960. "Al, we have those booklets of S&H Green Stamps we haven't done anything with", Marge said. "We have a big stack of those filled booklets in one of the kitchen drawers", Al reminded Marge. "What do you say we make a run with them to the Green Stamp Store in Albuquerque this Saturday. and Clarence can pick out some toys there". "That'd be wonderful", Marge agreed. "Neighborhood cubs stole his toys?". Zachery Bobcat asked. "No", Al answered, "We believe they were at some point left behind during the time Clarence became an orphan". "I'm sure it's not even possible for us to go retrieve them, even if we did know where they are", Marge added. "Aw, that's sad", Zachery replied. "But I know Clarence will be happy to get new toys this coming Saturday". Al and Marge then stayed around in the store a while, where they and Zachery Bobcat Sr. conversed a while before heading back to the house.
______________________________ Also, early that morning, Woodrow Raccoon, Harold Wolf, Johnny Ferret and Lenard Wolverine traveled out to the site where Clarence arrived in the time machine, in a continued attempt to get the machine operational in hopes that Clarence could eventually be able to return to his rightful point in time. Of course, there were obstacles due to much of the machine's technology being from ten years into the future, which proved itself to be a challenge to the expertise of the scientists attempting the repairs...The technical drawings they had laid out everywhere were not at that time fully completed. Plus the drawings were based on the technology leading up to 1960, and had none of the technical updates and revisions that were yet to be added over the next ten years...They were essentially attempting repairs on a 1970 machine with 1960 know-how and technology. As for Poindexter Fox and Greg Otter being present with the crew, it was decided it was best they shouldn't go out to the site that day, because they'll be working that evening with the turbo charger testing and needed to be alert for that task. At the time machine landing site, Woodrow Raccoon and Lenard Wolverine ran some readings, then worked calculations off of the readings, from which Harold Wolf able to engineer some basics to begin the design work for a couple of vacuum tube assemblies. The time machine's activity archive system was still in pretty good shape, thus Johnny Ferret was able to retrieve data as to the precise time the machine left the year 2018, and the precise time the machine arrived in 1960...As the readings revealed; the month, day and time of day, down to fractions of a second, were the same for Clarence's departure from 2018 and his arrival to 1960...Only the years were different, being 58 years apart...With that information, the scientists could now determine, down to the ten thousands of a second, as to how much time the machine carried Clarence through travelling from his future day and time...and taking in to account which of those years along his journey through time were leap years. The other three animals on the repair team were delighted with relief upon Johnny Ferret reporting his findings from the machine's activity archive system. "With that information being so crucial, how fortunate it is that wasn't among the systems that were damaged during the machine's failure", said Lenard Wolverine. "The activity archive system is a recording devise", Woodrow Raccoon replied. "Therefor, it wouldn't have suffered the same level of unregulated energy as the machine's drive components did, which incidentally is what also burnt up some of those the electrical boards". "All that damage done in an instant...Yet taking a few minutes", Lenard Wolverine pondered. "Strange thing about time travel", Woodrow Raccoon responded to Lenard Wolverine. "From what we've been able to theorize, the journey itself is instantaneous, involving no passage of time...Yet...To the time machine itself, it's occupants, and any contents aboard, the experience of travelling through time could be as long as several minutes". "Well quite obviously, it's because a time travel machine has to establish a time avenue in which to navigate that instantaneous leap through time", Harold Wold replied. "And as we all know, it's that system we're still trying to design for the technical drawings". "Yea", Lenard Wolverine added. "I've been noticing components in that very system we're still trying to design that Clarence had damaged during his little time travel escapade here to the present". "And so far, a system we know very little about", Harold Wolf further added. "And by the way, Lenard. Let's not be so hard on Clarence. He's only a cub, and I'm sure he's realized the folly of what he has done by now". "Come have a look at this", Johnny Ferret said once he took notice as to what point in time the machine was originally programmed to go. "Nearly five million years ago", Harold Wolf affirmed after having a look at Johnny Ferret's readings. "The age of primitive mammals", Woodrow Raccoon added. "That young Coyote is damn lucky this machine went into failure like it did", said Lenard Wolverine. "No one was around five million years ago who could have helped him". "Here's a hot one for you", Woodrow Raccoon said, then explained, "Ironically, the failure occurred because the operator...i.e., Clarence Coyote...neglected to regulate the energy reactor during his escapade in this machine...You do know from what we've designed so far, that reactor has to be manually and constantly regulated while this machine is in operation. And by someone who knows what they're doing". "So it was Clarence's very ignorance of how to operate this machine that saved him fom going back nearly five million ago...Like you said, Woodrow. That is a hot one", Harold Wolf affirmed. "Yea...And an eight year old cub fooling around would have a way of knowing about the reactor", Johnny Ferret pointed out. "Precisely why Clarence should have left this machine alone", Lenard Wolverine concluded. The machine's reactor is that thick, glass, tubular column, in the center of the craft, that runs from the floor to the ceiling, and has the violet beam of light surrounded by the teal light rings passing through each other...It has three control slide levers extended out from the top mount at the ceiling in which to regulate it...There are two more of the machine's reactor controls, in conjunction with two analogue gauges, located on the console to the right side of the operator's seat.
______________________________ Meanwhile, at school that morning in Estancia, Biff Pitbull, his brother Richie, and their crony Gaston Pitbull, decided to take some time out during one of their high school class changes to walk over to the elementary school building and see what kind of trouble they can stir up...So what if they were going to be a little late for next class...The bully threesome figured they want to have a little fun...Besides that, they were short on cigarette money. And the opportunity for fun and ill begotten profit they did find sure enough...3rd grade Teacher, Glenda Otter, had her class out on the playground for recess. Glenda Otter had instructed the cubs to play together on the playground...However, three cubs in Mrs. Otter's 3rd grade class, Ginger Fox, Bucky Beaver and Billy Lamb, decided to venture out into a field area beyond the playground and do a little exploring. It wasn't long before the three cubs who had ventured from the playground heard, "Hey well lookie here. Three little punkaroos". There stood the pitbull bullies. Then the three 3rd graders who disobeyed their teachers instructions suddenly found themselves being roughed up and pushed around by Biff, Richie and Gaston. Biff snatched Ginger Fox's purse, shoving her to the ground, then dumping her purse. As Ginger laid on the ground crying, Richie and Gaston roughed their way through Billy Lamb's wool and found a wallet. Hey, Biff!", Younger brother Richie called out. "Look what weeee found!" "Moneeeyyyyy! Heh heh heh!", Gaston laughed as Billy Lamb began crying. "Oh hey, lookie! We gotta nuf for a pack-a-smokes after school now", Richie proclaimed as he yanked a belt and money pouch from off of Buckey Beaver. As Biff was sifting for money through the the dumped contents of Ginger's purse, Bucky Beaver started hitting on Biff, and crying, "You leave us alone! You leave us alone!". Biff snapped at Bucky, "Why you little shit ass! It's a fight you want, huh! Let me show you how it's done!" Biff Pitbull then hollered at Bucky, "DON'T YOU DARE LAY A PAW ON ME YOU LITTLE FUCK ASS PIECE-A-SHIT!", as he commenced to unmercifully beating up little 3rd grade Bucky Beaver. "OOOOO I bet that hurt!", Richie laughed as he collected the lunch money out of Bucky Beaver's money pouch. The commotion in the field quickly got the attention of Glenda Otter's 3rd grade class. "MRS. OTTER! MRS. OTTER! LOOK!", Dusty Raccoon pointed toward the field, drawing Glenda's attention away from two cubs arguing on the playground. "MRS. OTTER! THEY'RE BEATING UP BUCKY!", Vicky Mink exclaimed. Glenda Otter bolted out to the field as though she was out for blood, screaming, "YOU MONSTERS LEAVE THOSE CUBS ALONE!" Biff, Richie and Gaston immediately fled at the sight of Glenda Otter bolting after them. Though Glenda is a sweet, lovable otter, However, toward those who intentionally harm a cub, she could become the meanest, most ornery and down right nasty otter who no one would dare to tangle with...And right now, Biff, Richie and Gaston had harmed three cubs, with Biff harming Bucky really bad. The pitbull youths ran too fast for Glenda Otter to catch them, and they were really lucky Glenda didn't get her paws on them...Had she did, one of them would have been hurt far worse than Biff had hurt Bucky. Shortly after Glenda arrived back from chasing the bullies off, and began to comfort the traumatized cubs, the class arrived and gathered around. "Those lousy bullies", Cheryl Coyote exclaimed. "This is why I told you on the bus the other day you have to avoid them", Rex said to Clarence. "Those bullies suck", said Clarence. "They really do". "Watch your mouth", Glenda Otter told Clarence. Noticing how badly Bucky Beaver was hurt, Glenda Otter said to Mina Ocelot, "Mina, go in and get the school nurse out here. Tell her I sent you". Within minutes, Mina Ocelot returned with Angela Otter, the school nurse. After Glenda Otter told Angela Otter what happened, Angela asked Bucky Beaver, "Where does it hurt?". "Here...An here...Oh it hurts...An here...", Bucky cried as he still laid on the ground and mentioning places where it hurts. "This cub needs to be seen by a doctor", Angela informed Glenda. "I'm going to call his parents to come by and pick him up". Bucky Beaver was able to stand back up, but his left elbow hurt every time he tried to use it. Bucky could walk, though not with much comfort, thus Angela Otter escorted Bucky to her nurse's office to call his parents to pick him up. Glenda Otter also had cut recess short and escorted her students back to the classroom. On the way back to the school building, Bucky, limping along with tears in his eyes, told Ginger Fox and Billy Lamb, "I'm gonna drag a nail down the side of Biff and Richie's dad's Cadillac one of these days...You wait-n-see". "You don't need to talk that way", Glenda Otter said to Bucky Beaver. "Oh gosh no", Angela Otter added. Rex Coyote advised, "Don't do it, Bucky. If Biff or Richie ever catch you out in the parking lot doing that, them and that creepy toady of theirs will probably pound all of us in the dirt". "Not as long as I'm here they won't", Glenda Otter assured her class. So Bucky Beaver decided against that idea of dragging a nail down the side of Biff and Richie's dad's Cadillac. After Glenda Otter got her students back into the classroom and settled down, she went to Principal Monty Wolverine's office to report what had happened to Bucky, Ginger and Billy...In turn, elementary school Principal Monty Wolverine reported the incident to high school Principal Clayton Wolf about Biff, Richie and Gaston...And it wasn't long before Clayton Wolf got on the intercom as follows: Principal Wolf; "Mrs. Sandra Bear". Mrs. Bear; "Yes". Principal Wolf; "Is Biff Pitbull in you class right now?". Mrs. Bear; "He's not here...No, wait. He's just now coming in late". Principal Wolf; "Have him come to my office please". Then followed by: Principal Wolf; "Mr. Leon Coyote". Leon Coyote; "Yes, Mr. Wolf". Principal Wolf; "Are Richie Pitbull and Gaston Pitbull in you class right now?". Leon Coyote; "That they are. Twenty minutes late I might add". Principal Wolf; "Have both of them come to my office please". Leon Coyote; "They're on their way...And you can have 'em", as the class laughed. Then Leon Coyote told Richie and Gaston, "You heard him. Get on down to the office. The wait in the waiting room wasn't long before Principal Wolf called the three delinquent pitbull youths into his office. "You three get in here", Principal Wolf told them, as the bully threesome felt intimidated coming face to face with the big, burly, no-nonsense timber wolf who could have mopped the floor with all three of them at once if he wanted to. Principal Clayton Wolf then abruptly shut the office door, then verbally laid in hard on Biff, Richie and Gaston, starting out with, "WHO DO YOU THREE HOOLIGANS THINK YOU ARE?!" And if you wanted to see a timber wolf raise his voice like a tiger, then you should have been there in that office back on that Wednesday morning of February 17th, 1960, when Principal Wolf was ranting and raving at the three pitbull youths...as the saying goes...'up one wall and down the other'. After Principal Wolf toned down on the hollering, he told Biff, Richie and Gaston, "I was told Glenda Otter chased you three off. I know Glenda Otter over at the elementary school well enough to say you're oh so lucky she didn't get her paws on any of you...I'll have you three know I served in the Marines during World War Two. Made it to Sargent before the war was over. And even I wouldn't think of going up against Glenda Otter when she's as angry as she is at you three right now...There's no telling what she would have done to any of you. After the loud raving lecture, followed by the brief information session, it was now question and answer time. "Okay. Where is it?", Principal Clayton Wolf demanded to know where the lunch money belonging to the cubs was that the pitbulls had stolen. "Where is what?", Richie replied in a snide way. "THE MONEY YOU STOLE FROM THOSE CUBS!", Principal Wolf shouted. "YOU DON'T WANT TO PLAY STUPID WITH ME! I CAN ASSURE YOU OF THAT!". "We ain't got no money", Biff told Principal Wolf. "Yea, we're like, uh, broke", Gaston added. "Hey, bud. None of us have a penny to our names", Biff further added. "Oh yea? We'll see about that", Clayton Wolf replied, as he then demanded the three pitbull youths lay out their clip on wallets on the desk (the kind that clips concealed beneath the fur hairs). Biff had his wallet with him, but Richie and Gaston didn't have a wallet on them. Prior to Principal Wolf checking Biff's wallet, he asked Biff, "Before I check this wallet, are you sure you don't want to change your story about not having a penny to your name?". Biff didn't give a reply. Principal Wolf then continued, "If I find out you're lying to me, do you see that phone?...All I need to do is call the Torrence County Sheriff's department, Pal...And that will get all three of you in reform school so fast it will make your heads spin". Principal Wolf then opened Biff's wallet and shook it up-side-down over his desk...Nothing fell out. Upon checking inside the wallet, Principal Wolf found out the only thing in the wallet was an expired learner's permit to drive a car. "You're driving around in your dad's car on this? You know I can make some trouble for you over this if I really wanted to, don't you", Principal Wolf said to Biff as he flipped the wallet and expired learner's permit across his desk back at Biff. Principal Wolf was beginning to realize there were 1,000s of places they could have had that money stashed...and no telling where. "So nobody knows where the money went", Principal Wolf said..."Nobody". Biff, Richie and Gaston just stood there, giving dumb looks. Principal Wolf then told the Pitbull youths. "Good. It just disappeared all by itself. If playing games is your intention, I can play games too. But I can guarantee you won't come out on the winning end". Then Principal Wolf decided their punishment should be an hour detention after school everyday for ten days....and with a chore to do. Principal Clayton Wolf explained to Biff, Richie and Gaston, "Your detention period will commence tomorrow on the 18th...This is a leap year...So that makes the last day being March 2nd"...That will be a Wednesday in case you're wondering... Now listen up you three. In case you have delusions that your detention time is going to consist of sitting on your cans and clowning around for an hour, get that out of your noggins right now. After school, you will scrub the sidewalks on the school grounds with water, cleanser and pole brushes..." Principal Wolf then noticed Richie giving a crossed look, then asked, "Richie, you have a problem with that?". "No, Sir, I don't", Richie answered. "Nor do I", Principal Wolf replied. "So we're on the same page then". "I guess so", Richie replied. "You guess?", Principal Wolf asked Richie. "Principal Wolf then continued, "Now I know you boys are not going to want to hear this. With the cold weather we've been having, water freezes in a hose...So...You'll have to haul your cleaning water in pails. Our Janitor, Rufus Opossum, has plenty of pails in the utility room, so believe you me, there's enough pails...Then you'll need to put deicer down where you've cleaned...We can't have ice on the sidewalks, now can we?". And then Principal Wolf asked, "Anything any of you have to say before I send you back to class?". "Yea", said Biff. "This is fucken' bullshit, Jack". "Biff. That just got your detention extended another five days to March the 9th", Principal Wolf told Biff..."Anything else you care to run that big mouth of your's about?" "No sir", Biff replied in a disgruntled tone. "I didn't think so...I just lovvve playing games. Don't you? I did say you weren't gonna win", Principal Wolf replied. "And by the way, in case any of you three are thinking of skipping detention, get that out of your noggins too. I really would not advise it. There's always reform school as an alternative, and it's only one phone call away...Richie, you were in reform school once. You didn't like it well, did you?". "No...I didn't", Richie answered. "I thought not", Principal Wolf replied. "Now the three of you, back to class. I got better things to accomplish today than to mess with your all's stupid shenanigans". Of course, Biff, Richie and Gaston didn't head directly back to class...They stopped at a payphone in one of the school hallways to phone Mommy and Daddy to tell them that they were given some "unfair detention after school". Biff and Richie used the phone first to call their mom...And they called collect so they won't have to spend the nickle out of that cigarette money they stole from the cubs on the phone call (which the money was already stashed in the glove compartment of Daddy's Cadillac). Biff and Richie's mom, Diana, was shocked to hear that her 'poor precious darling boys' got such horrible detention...Mom said she would call Daddy, Reginald Pitbull, from off a job site to come in and talk to the principal...Biff and Richie's dad was a general building contractor who contracts a lot of construction jobs in the Albuquerque area (Biff and Richie being spoiled sons of a rich daddy). Then it was Gaston's turn to use the payphone to place a call to his mom and dad...Collect of course as not to chip into the cigarette money...His mom and dad too were stunned beyond disbelief that their 'perfect little sonny boy'...'their little Angel'... could have ever been given detention...Gaston's dad is a framing contractor, who holds a journeyanimal's card that authorizes him to fill in as an acting contractor in the absents of a general contractor...There were many times that he worked with Biff and Richie's dad on construction jobs.
An hour later, Principal Clayton Wolf's secretary informed him, "There's a Mr. and Mrs. Reginald and Diana Pitbull here to see you, Sir". Principal Wolf, knowing they were Biff and Richie's parents from prior troubles Biff and Richie had been in, instructed the secretary, "Send them in". Upon entering the Principal's office, Biff and Richie's daddy, Reginald, flew into a rage, "What's the meaning of this?! My wife drives out to drag me off of a damn job site just to have me come in here to deal with this stupid shit!" "Don't you use that language on these school grounds", Principal Wolf warned Reginald Pitbull. "I demand you drop that detention you have on our sons!...And I mean now, Mister!", Reginald ranted. "Who are you to think our sons deserve something like that?". "You listen to me! And listen to me good!" Principal Wolf gruffed back at Daddy Pitbull. "Your sons and another youth assaulted three 3rd graders today, sending one of them to be seen by a doctor...The detention stands, and the Torrence County School Board will back me up all the way on that decision". "Well you just do that!", Reginald Pitbull ranted at Principal Wolf. "I'll contact our attorneys and they'll be all over your ass in court like flies on shit!". "One more nasty word tumbles out of your mouth in here, and I'm picking up that phone and having your sons sent to reform school", Principal Wolf warned. "You want that?" "YOU - WOULDN'T - DAARRREE!", Diana Pitbull retorted. "You want to try me?", Principal Wolf asked. "Honey Honey. Let's get outa here", Reginald said to his wife, Diana. "We'll go see the attorney and we'll get this straightened out". "Well you just do that", Principal Wolf returned Reginald's statement as the Pitbull parents stormed out of the office. "Uhhh!", Diana Pitbull gasped as she and Reginald left. Everyone in the office could hear Reginald and Diana ranting over the issue all the way down the hallway on their way to their car. Reginald, with Diana, raced out of the school parking lot in their teal blue, 1960, Cadillac Eldorado convertible, one of their other cars... https://www.google.com/search?q=1960+cadillac+eldorado&...: ...being that their sons, Biff and Richie, were using the '59 Coupe-De-Ville. https://www.google.com/search?q=1959+cadillac&hl=en...: Principal Clayton Wolf had figured for some time that Biff and Richie's parents never raised them right. And that confrontation in the office was one of many obvious testimonies to that fact. It was only 45 minutes later when Principal Wolf had a repeat performance from Gaston's parents to deal with...yet another mom and dad who never raised their son right. As for Bucky Beaver, his injuries weren't quite bad enough to land him in a hospital. However, Bucky did suffer a sprained left elbow, which the doctor fashioned a sling for. The doctor then ordered that Bucky should take it easy and rest for three days before returning to school...and the sling needs to remain on his left arm for a week. Needless to say, Bucky's parents had begun the discussion of taking Reginald Collindale Pitbull, and his wife Diana to small claims court for the doctor bill incurred from Bucky's injuries.
Ginger Fox and Billy Lamb would have had to do without lunch that day had it not been for their teacher, Glenda Otter, explaining to the cafeteria staff what had happened at recess that day...Thus they felt compassion for Billy and Ginger and gave them each a free lunch.
______________________________ Meanwhile, at the time machine landing site, the crew was encountering moments where readings they were getting were such that it would put their calculations in a loop upon itself, thus throwing the calculations back to the point where it started...However, in most of those such cases, the scientists were eventually able figure out and track down what had been throwing the math and engineering processes off track. However, by about 2:37 in the afternoon the crew began encountering more technical obstacles with the machine...This time, it were obstacles they knew would the require expertise in the particular fields of scientific knowledge possessed by Poindexter Fox and Greg Otter in order to continue. "This is as far as we can go without Greg and Poindexter out here", said Woodrow Raccoon. "They'll have the testing on that turbo charger completed this evening", Harold Wolf said. "Tomorrow they should be able to come out here and have a look at what's going on". Thus because Poindexter and Greg wouldn't be available to come out to the site that afternoon, there was no other choice but to call it a day, and resume on it tomorrow when Poindexter Fox and Greg Otter can check it out. So, the drawings were collected, the tools and diagnostic equipment were gathered up, and the door was closed on the machine. The animals out on the repair crew sure were glad that when Clarence arrived in the time machine, it landed behind that rock formation that hides it from the view of Highway 54. Then, Woodrow Raccoon, Harold Wolf and Lenard Wolverine drove their cars from behind the rock formation and back out to the highway while Johnny Ferret kept watch to warn in case of approaching cars so no one would be seen leaving the site by curious motorists. Johnny Ferret being the last to leave the site took a look down both directions of Highway 54, then sprinted to his car, a red and white, 1958 Chevy Impala. https://www.google.com/search?q=1958+chevy+impala&h...: Then wasted no time pulling out onto Highway 54 while no other cars were approaching.
______________________________ Meanwhile, aboard the bus as school had let that out afternoon, Rex and Clarence Coyote told Jerald Coyote about what happened to the three cubs in their class. "It' already gotten around all over our high school", Jerald told them. "Everyone knows about it by now", Dotty Coyote further added "We heard about that in our class too", Jed Coyote said, as Grayson Raccoon and his Sister Linda, and Kevin Fox affirmed. "I heard Bucky Beaver had to go to a doctor", said Jenifer Squirrel. "An accident at school happen today?", bus driver Stimpson Mink asked as the last cub boarded the bus for the trip home. No. A third grader in my younger sister's class was beat up by Biff Pitbull, Jerald Coyote told Stimpson. "That's not right", Stimpson Mink said as he put the bus in gear and pulled out. "A high schooler beating up on a 3rd grader". "And Ginger Fox and Billy Lamb (who rode a different bus) were messed with too", Cheryl added. "Richie and Gaston were in on it too", said Kevin Fox. "Biff's got his coming, though he doesn't know it yet", Jerald said to Stimpson. "He's gonna find out what it is to get beat up by a high school football player". "Woah, hold on now", Stimpson Mink said to Jerald Coyote. "I know how you feel. But let me give you some advice...Now this is between me and you and this bus...and everyone here to, so don't spread it around I said this", as Stimpson's other passengers agreed. "That is?", Jerald asked. "You don't want to get in trouble at school, and maybe get kicked off the football team ...Right?, Stimpson said to Jerald. "Gee...I guess I hadn't thought of all that", Jerald admitted. "I don't want to see my brother kicked off the team over some looser", older sister Dotty said to Jerald. "Me neither", younger sister Cheryl added. "But Biff hurt Bucky. I saw it happen". "So here's what you do", Stimpson Mink advised Jerald Coyote. "If you plan to pound Biff Pitbull, as you say you're gonna do, don't do it on school property. Wait until you catch him somewhere away from school. Okay?". "Hey, thanks, Stimpson", Jerald Coyote thanked Stimpson Mink. "I appreciate the heads-up". "There's times Biff and Richie and Gaston bring those looser girlfriends of theirs to The Hop out on 66. You can get 'em then", 12th grader Gus Bear suggested. "Naw, Gus. I don't want Roger kicking me out of The Hop and tellin' me not to come back. When I bump into Biff somewhere else, that's when he's gettin' hurt", Jerald replied.
______________________________ Meanwhile, Biff and Richie were cruising around in Daddy's Cadillac with Gaston riding along around their hometown of Moriarty, playing the roll of smart ass big shots, puffing on Viceroy cigarettes they bought with the lunch money they stole from the cubs. https://youtu.be/JtSGNasZ8sU?t=34 The attendants at couple stores and a gas station they stopped at wouldn't sell a pack of cigarettes to underage teens and cubs...So the three Pitbulls had made their purchase from a cigarette vending machine...Drop in the cubs lunch money into the slot, pull the knob out for the desired brand, and the pack of cigarettes drop down in the receiving tray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLgjQnUACos https://youtu.be/10kepCkP1dM?t=19 And by the way...The three pitbull youths were certainly not looking forward to an hour of scrubbing sidewalks everyday after school for a couple of weeks...Which was to commence the following day.
______________________________ After the teens and cubs got off the bus back in Duran, Jed, Rex, Clarence and Donna told Mama Marge and Daddy Al about the cubs being bullied and their lunch money stolen by the three pitbull bullies, and how one of the cubs got beat up. "Those three need to be in a military school, or a reform school", Marge said to the cubs, out of concern that one of them might run afoul someday with the bullies and get hurt. Daddy Al mentioned, "If Biff or that brother of his hurt any of our cubs, I'll lay a hurting on their Daddy for not raising them right". "Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that", Marge replied. "Clarence and I actually saw it happen", Rex told Al and Marge. "They're in our class". "And the beaver in our class got beat up bad too", Clarence added. "I'm in their class too", Cheryl Coyote told Marge. "And I saw it too. Bucky Beaver in our class had to go to the doctor. And Bucky said he's gonna drag a nail down Biff's daddy's big Cadillac". "Okay, Cheryl. I talked Bucky out of it...Okay?", Rex told Cheryl. After Jerald, Dotty and Cheryl Coyote walked home from the bus stop, Jerald told Daddy Frank Coyote and Mama Wanda Coyote what happened at school today. While taking a seat at the dining room table, Jerald told about how he planed to give Biff a good ass beating for what he did to 3rd grader Bucky Beaver. "So you're going to beat up one of those trouble makers at school", Daddy Frank said as he came hobbling on a cane from the living room where he was watching TV. Why Frank Jenkins Coyote hobbled with a cane was not that he was an elderly Coyote in 1960...In fact he was only age 36. Frank Coyote use to work for the State Highway Department. On a road resurfacing job four years earlier (1956), a drunk driver came plowing through a line of traffic cones and into the closed lane where Frank's crew was working. Frank was struck by the driver and maimed for life...Frank has since been receiving generous disability pensions from both the State of New Mexico and the drunk driver's insurance company. As Daddy Frank came into the dining room, he put it this way to Jerald..."Well, Jerald. I want you to realize you can get into trouble for pounding Biff Pitbull...Now I'm not telling you to do it, and not telling you not to. But if you do, Biff will have deserved it".
______________________________ At Al and Marge's house, this was to be the last evening that Al Coyote will be on an evening schedule helping the turbo charger project...After this evening, it would be back to day shift...That is, of course, until the next evening job project came up at a later time that Al would have a lot of needed expertise in. It was still early evening when Al and Marge hugged and kissed as they usually do before Al leaves for work, then Al was on his way to the lab to assist Greg Otter and Poindexter Fox in completing the tests on that turbo charger prototype.
The cubs got permission from Marge to use the laptop and drawing tablet while Al was at work that evening. The cubs had lots of enjoyment drawing more drawings, funny cartoons and sketches...However, by now, the battery in the laptop was beginning to run low...But no problem. Clarence also had the charger with him...But Clarence had never given any thought about being able to charge up the battery on his laptop until there was going to be a slight obstacle in the way. The charger for Clarence's laptop had a three prong grounded plug, and most houses built in those days had two prong wall outlets that didn't accept a three prong plug...And the Coyote Family's house was no exception...That was even back in the days when houses had screw-in fuses instead of circuit breakers, and woven asbestos insulated wiring. With that dilemma prevailing, the cubs saved their artwork onto the flashdrives while there was still life in the laptop battery. Donna mentioned, "Mom, don't we have batteries in the top kitchen drawer?", referring to flashlight batteries. "I'm not sure it's those kind of batteries", Marge replied to her daughter. "It's not", Clarence affirmed. "And the plug on my charger won't fit in these sockets". "Well, I'm sorry about that Clarence", Marge said. "But let's see what your dad can do for it when he get's home tonight". With the laptop pretty much down with a low battery, the cubs spent the remainder of the evening watching cartoons on TV.
Later that evening, when Al got home from the turbo charger testing project, he passed on a progress report to Marge what he was told about the work that had been done on the time machine that day. Al told Marge, "Harold Wolf and three others made some progress on how they'll design some replacement assemblies...But they don't know what to do any further until Greg and Poindexter can have a look at it". "We can only hope for the best". Marge replied, then mentioned, "But I'll have to say, if they do get that machine fixed, I'm gonna miss Clarence". "I will too, Honey. But you do know 58 years from now, they'll be a family who will miss him more than we will", Al convinced Marge. "I know", Marge agreed. "But until the machine can be fixed, Clarence is still one of our precious loving cubs", Al mentioned as he and Marge hugged and kissed. "This reminds me", Marge said to Al. "I've been noticing in the short time Clarence has been with us so far, he and Cheryl have become fond of each other". "Frank and Wanda's daughter, I've been noticing that too", said Al. "If Clarence is able to return home back to 2018, we do know it will mean a sad good bye for the two of them", Marge pointed out. "Yea, I know", Al replied. "But we can't just say to Frank and Wanda that Clarence is from the future, and might be able to return to his home time depending on if a time machine can be fixed". "Isn't there some way we can explain that Clarence may have to leave Cheryl behind someday", Marge asked. "Well, Marge", Al concluded. "Maybe we should just leave the situation as it is. I believe it would be better for Clarence and Cheryl to have love and lost than to never have loved at all". Marge thought it over for a moment, then agreed, "You know. I believe you're right, Al". With all that said and out of the way, Marge then explained the dilemma encountered concerning recharging the laptop battery. "Have you seen the plug on the charging thinger-ma-jig of Clarence's laptop?", Marge asked. "I really never paid attention to it", Al replied. "It has a third prong", Marge told Al. "You know a normal socket is made to accept only two prongs". "That sounds like you're talking about a grounding prong. But that's for use in industrial and some commercial applications. Not for homes", Al informed Marge. "This situation has me thinking three prong sockets might become common in homes by 2018", Marge surmised. "I'm sure of that, from what you're telling me about the plug on the charger for Clarence's laptop", Al agreed. "That would make sense". Fortunately, there was a solution to that dilemma. "They make an adapter, that plugs into a regular socket, and those special grounded prong plugs can plug into the adapter", Al mentioned. "Oh, that's a wonderful idea", Marge replied. "They should have them at the W. M. Hindi Store", Said Al. "I'll pick one up tomorrow morning when they open...Problem solved". Oh, by the way. It's past eight thirty. Do the cubs have homework?", Al asked. "With all that was going on today, I forgot to ask them", Marge replied. Al then went from the dining room where he and Marge had been talking, into the living room where the cubs were watching cartoons on TV. "Do you cubs have homework tonight?", Daddy Al asked. "Dad, there's a show coming on we were waiting to watch", Jed replied. "Can we watch it first, and then...?". "No", Dad interrupted Jed in mid sentence. "Do you cubs have homework?". "Yea, I do", Jed answered. "Clarence and I don't have much homework", Rex answered. "But there's this show..." "Never mind the show" Daddy Al interrupted Rex, then Al asked, "Donna, you got homework?" Donna answered, "Uhhh, yea". The cubs had been watching cartoons on that black & white Zeneth TV until about 8:35 pm before Daddy Al and Mama Marge found out the cubs had homework assignments they have not gotten started on yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKzbTXuNKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFaHCz2tHGQ Thus, being that Mom and Dad had already noticed how late it was, they were getting onto the cubs about not getting their homework started. "It's past time for you cubs to turn that TV off and get your homework started", Dad told the cubs. Rex retorted, "Aww...It's gonna be a good show comin' on after this pookie ole commercial goes off ". The 'pookie ole commercial' was a Chevy Corvair commercial, and a noisy commercial at that, which was playing on TV as Dad reminded the cubs they were told to get their homework started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n86B2NQKwMo (Except being the Furry Universe, it was a bear hosting the commercial). "You all have been watching cartoons all evening, and haven't even started on your homework, Mom retorted over the sound of the noisy commercial. As the commercial continued on TV, Clarence asked, "But can't we watch our next show first?". "Can weeee?", Donna added. "You cubs see how late it's getting, don't you?", Dad said. "You're going to be too tired to finish your homework, then you all will get a big fat F tomorrow in school", Mom said over the commercial playing. "Don't argue with your mom and I, or the paddle comes down", Dad warned the cubs as the noisy Corvair commercial continued. It's hard to talk over a noisy commercial continuing ,"Superb handling so easy, you don't need power steering..." https://youtu.be/n86B2NQKwMo?t=59 Then Dad said to Mom, "That TV needs to be turned off". The point where Mom turned off the TV was when the commercial was at, "And because the engine is in the rear, the floor is virtually flat...". https://youtu.be/n86B2NQKwMo?t=71 Mom and Dad then cleared a place on the dining room table for the cubs to sit and do their homework assignments...Thus there would be no 'big fat Fs' given by their teachers at school the next day.
After the homework assignments were completed, it was showers, then off to bed...After all, it was past the cubs bedtime.
I saw an artist rendition of that day and time. The mammals seem to look like they were pretty advanced, though looked a bit different. Many of them looked like opossums, fossas, sabertooth cats, and wooley mammoths.
I saw an artist rendition of that day and time. The mammals seem to look like they were pretty advan
