Missed Chances

Detective Dudley entered the office and turned to Miss Milly ‘where is J.D Lula?’

Miss Milly replied ‘oh she has gone to the library to return her books, why do you ask?’

Detective Dudley showed Miss Milly the headline of the local newspaper ‘I thought she may be interested in this’ at this Detective Dudley gave the newspaper to Miss Milly who looked at the headline ‘Strange lights over the moors! Possible U.F.O sighting’

Miss Milly said ‘oh I will see she gets it’ at this she took the paper and hid it in her desk draw, she thought to herself ‘gosh if she sees this she will go crazy, even more crazy than she is normally especially as she fell asleep and missed the whole thing not that I believe in these things I was only joking when I mentioned them to her’

Detective Dudley said to Miss Milly ‘I am off to see Chika, contact me if anything comes up’ with this he left the office.

Several minutes later J.D. Lula arrived back from the library ‘hello Miss Milly where is Detective Dudley?’

‘Oh he is meeting Chica’ she replied

Lula placing her new books on her desk stated ‘I think Detective Dudley is turning into a cat… he spends a lot of time with that Chico’

Miss Milly corrected J.D Lula ‘its Chica not Chico’

J.D Lula  answered ‘Chica, Chico it is all the same to me at the end of the day she is a Cat! Dogs do not work with cats, dogs chase cats! Cats climb up trees and we bark at them, that is how it works!’

Miss Milly replied ‘J.D Lula you are so old fashioned… There is no reason why dogs and cats cannot get on and your attitude needs to change. Anyway, what did you get from the library?’

Lula read out the titles of her three library books ‘The complete Dummies guide to U.F.O’s’

Miss Milly giggling said ‘that’s a very good title for you!’

J.D. Lula ignoring Miss Milly went on ‘U.F.O Spotting for Beginners’ and the last one is ‘Stories of Alien Abduction’  

Miss Milly said ‘Lula you are really into this U.F.O thing aren’t you?’

Lula replied ‘oh yes I would love to see a U.F.O and to have a chance of meeting aliens, imagine how exciting that would be! I would be world famous, I would have my own TV show, and I can see it now ‘Close Encounters with J.D Lula’

At this Miss Milly quietly opened her draw, took out the newspaper and threw it in the rubbish bin. She turned to Lula and said ‘oh well… we all need to dream’