One morning in a happy home in Westport, Connecticut, Darrin Stephens was getting ready for work. It was a peaceful morning, very quiet, just the birds chirping.
"SAMANTHA!" Darrin yelled to his wife in anger.
Samantha winced. She knew that tone. That was the tone her husband only used when he was upset by witchcraft. "Yes dear?" Samantha answered.
"SAMANTHA! Your mother has been zapping and hocus pocus-ing around again hasn't she?" Darrin yelled as he ran down the stairs to Samantha.
"Darrin, Mother hasn't been here in days."
"Well that's what you think. How do we really know when she's here?"
"What in the world are you talking about, Darrin?"
"You know..she can just come here invisible, mess with me a little bit and then leave!"
"What makes you say this?"
"Well, as I was getting dressed for work, my drawers were opening and closing..by themselves!"
"Now, that doesn't sound like Mother. When she bothers you she likes to take full credit."
"Then who could it be?" Darrin asks. "Oh no! Not-"
A loud laugh interrupts Darrin. Darrin hated that sound. All of the sudden one of Samantha's relatives appears right in the living room.
"Uncle Arthur!" Darrin says angrily.
"Hey, how's my good ol' "Yaga Zuzi" nephew in law?"
"Mmph" Darrin grumbles. "Luckily, I'm late for work."
"Oh darn" Uncle Arthur replies sarcastically.
"Good bye, Sweetheart." Samantha says "have a good day"
"Too late." Darrin looks disgustedly at Uncle Arthur and kisses Samntha good bye and he's on his way.
"So, now that we're rid of him..Sammy, how've you been?"
"Just fine. Now Uncle Arthur, why do you have to bother Darrin?"
"Oh Sammy, it's just so much fun!" Uncle Arthur laughs. "Now, how's little Tabitha?"
"Good. She's eating breakfast in the kitchen."
They both walk into the kitchen to little three year old Tabitha eating her breakfast.
"She's beautiful. Looks just like you. And lucky for you she's doesn't have one bit of Darrin in her..or Endora."
"Oh Uncle Arthur!"
"How is the old crone anyway?"
"Mother is fine"
"Oh the reason I came to visit is that I came bearing a gift for you."
"Really! You shouldn't have"
"Well, I took my annual trip to the moon and I brought you back this!"
He takes out a dark gray, dusty rock.
"Oh Uncle Arthur, a moon rock!" Samantha replies excitedly.
"Isn't it great? I got it for you and Tabitha, well and Darrin, I guess.."
"Thank you! I'll put it on the mantle."
Samantha walks into the living room, places the rock on the mantle and then stands back and admires it. A moon rock is a typical souvenir a witch or warlock will get a loved one. There are all different and one can choose a unique one for their friend or family member. It's an honor to recieve one.
"Well Sammy, I gotta fly, tell Darrin I'll see him around, in his dresser" Uncle Arthur laughs.
"Uncle Arthur be nice to Darrin. He really is a sweet, loving man if you give him a chance."
After Uncle Arthur leaves Samantha goes on with her housework and plays with Tabitha a little bit. in the afternoon, she Tabitha down for a nap. As she's about to start dinner, she hears the sound she dreads every time she hears it.
"Mrs. Stephens?" Gladys Kravitz yells from outside her window. "You didn't answer the door, but I saw Mr. Stephens take the car this morning so I knew you were home."
"What is it Mrs. Kravitz, I just put Tabitha down for a nap."
"I just came over for some sugar."
"Alright Mrs. Kravitz, come on inside." Samantha replies. "How much sugar you need?"
"A cup." Mrs. Kravitz says as she looks around the Stephens' house "You don't have company?"
"No, Mrs. Kravitz. Why don't you make yourself at home in the living room while I get your sugar."
Mrs. Kravitz snoops around the room quickly while Samantha fetches her sugar. She does a quick scan around and stops at the mantle. "What is that mysterious gray rock?" she says to herself. "It looks like it came from outerspace!" She picks it up and quickly examines it.
"Mrs. Kravitz?" Samantha comes walking in the room. Gladys quickly puts the rock down.
"Yes, Mrs. Stephens. I was just admiring your lovely rock here."
"Oh that! It's..uh..a rock that we like to keep around."
"On the mantle?"
"Yes. Mrs. Kravitz can you please take your sugar, I need to start dinner. Darrin will be home soon."
"Sure, Mrs. Stephens. Where in the world, or out of this world, did you get that rock?"
"Oh we just aquired it." Samantha says dodging Mrs. Kravitz's questions like bullets.
"I'm watching you Mrs. Stephens. NASA will hear about this! Far too many strange things happen in this house ever since you moved here five years ago."
"NASA! But Mrs. Kravitz, I assure it's just a rock.."
"I don't believe you! I'm calling the space program!" Mrs. Kravitz says as she storms out of 1164 Morning Glory Circle.
"Oh good grief!" Samntha says as she shuts the door. She watches as Gladys makes her way across the street and tells her husband, Abner, about the moon rock.
Samantha is interrupted by a phone ring.
"Hello?" Samantha says into the phone.
"Hi sweetheart, how are you."
"Uhh fine."
"What do you mean 'uhh fine'?"
"Darrin? I have good and bad news."
"Mmm. what's the bad news?"
"Well, the good news is, Uncle Arthur left."
"That is good. The bad news, Sam?"
"And the good news is..I love you very much!"
"SAM! What's the bad news?"
"Uncle Arthur gave us a little gift-a moon rock."
"Yes?"
"And Gladys Kravitz came over and saw it. She's calling NASA." Samantha says as she winces and awaits Darrin's reaction.
"SAMANTHA! NASA?"
"Well, we might get to meet a real astronaut!"
"Oh forget the astronauts. What am I going to say. 'You see, Colonel, my wife's a witch and her warlock uncle brought us this rock from his trip to the moon.' Sam they'll lock me up!"
"Now don't over react darling."
"Samantha how could you get us into this?"
"Well?" Samantha replies.