Who the Hell is Ben Holder? (A retelling of the Ben Holder story since I deleted it way back when)
My name is not Ben Holder. It's Kris. In real life it's Kris too, but that's a coincidence. The Mysterious Lubba D is not my sister's real name though.
When we were children, before the events I talked about at No Time For Later, we were VERY happy kids. I would say we fought like cats & dogs, but that would be untrue. We fought like cats & dogs if cats didn't run away from dogs so often. Despite this fact we had a lot of fun. When we were done fighting, though, inevitably I would go away from it licking my wounds and play with my imaginary friends. As if it wasn't bad enough that my sister is 5 years older than me and beat me mercilessly, my mother would chew both of us out. I got the short side of the stick. So I took it out, along with everything else that didn't go my way, on Ben Holder.
I had two imaginary friends, X and Ben Holder. X was from the planet X. Ben Holder was a construction worker. I don't know how he got the job at such a young age, but I guess he was talented. That didn't count for much with me; X was my best friend. I don't remember ever having fond feelings for Ben Holder. I wound up banishing Ben Holder to his home planet, E. I don't know why I named planets after letters, but I suppose it had to do with trippy Sesame Street antics.
Anyway, up to his banishing and subsequently me not playing with him anymore, Ben Holder was always there for me. In my first post ever on this blog, then called Dinner for two, I dedicated this blog to my sister, the memory of my grandfather, and to Ben Holder.
When we were children, before the events I talked about at No Time For Later, we were VERY happy kids. I would say we fought like cats & dogs, but that would be untrue. We fought like cats & dogs if cats didn't run away from dogs so often. Despite this fact we had a lot of fun. When we were done fighting, though, inevitably I would go away from it licking my wounds and play with my imaginary friends. As if it wasn't bad enough that my sister is 5 years older than me and beat me mercilessly, my mother would chew both of us out. I got the short side of the stick. So I took it out, along with everything else that didn't go my way, on Ben Holder.
I had two imaginary friends, X and Ben Holder. X was from the planet X. Ben Holder was a construction worker. I don't know how he got the job at such a young age, but I guess he was talented. That didn't count for much with me; X was my best friend. I don't remember ever having fond feelings for Ben Holder. I wound up banishing Ben Holder to his home planet, E. I don't know why I named planets after letters, but I suppose it had to do with trippy Sesame Street antics.
Anyway, up to his banishing and subsequently me not playing with him anymore, Ben Holder was always there for me. In my first post ever on this blog, then called Dinner for two, I dedicated this blog to my sister, the memory of my grandfather, and to Ben Holder.
1 Comments:
Great post. Construction workers and dogs... they're both so loyal, ya gotta love 'em.
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