There is a big house on one side, with a path in the carpet leading to a small road. On the sides of the road are work buildings. There's a post office, a library, a doctor's office, a grocery store near one end, and an auto repair shop. On the end of the road is a fire station that also has a jungle gym connected to it. On the other end of the road is a field where you can pick plastic corn and other cash crops to sell in the grocery store next to it. Near the field is a tractor that you can climb on.
"Alright kids, have fun," says Mrs. Sanders. We all go out to various shops to play. There isn't any water here. I didn't know it then but that fact is good. I decided I'm gonna be my mom. At the time I didn't know what she did for a living, so I decided to try a bit of everything. I went in the little house. Inside was a table with three chairs, a little plastic kitchen, and a ramp. Up the ramp there is a bedroom. A little bed is in the corner, and an empty dresser leans against the wall opposite the bed. I got in the bed and pretended to sleep. About two seconds later I got up. Morning time! I open the dresser drawers and mime getting dressed. I go downstairs, or more like downramp, and pretend to eat breakfast at the little table. Then I head out the door.
The first place I work at is the post office. I put on the little costume they have and get a mailbag. In the post office there is hooks for the outfits, a big cubby organizer in the back, full of plastic mail cards, and a map of the little town. Each different cubby holds mail for a different store or place. One for the grocery store, the house, the auto shop, and so on. I take out two pieces of mail from each cubby, and stuff them in my mailbag. The first I pull out is for the doctor's office. When I go inside to give them the mail, I see a little x-ray mirror. That is so much more exciting. I run back to the post office, put the outfit on the hook, and drop the mailbag in the corner. It would take to long to put it all away, and that doctor's office is much more interesting.
I find Sean in there, and he lays me down on the bed. In the office is a bed, a cabinet with tons of doctors' supplies, casts and slings, and fake medicine bottles. There is also an x-ray mirror. You stand in the mirror and it shows your bones on you. Pretty fascinating. It didn't actually show what your bones look like. The same thing lit up each time, but nobody knew that then. Not even Barbara. Sean pulls out a stethoscope and starts listening on my chest. He shakes his head, puts it in the drawer, and sits me in a wheelchair. He puts me in front of the mirror and hits the button on the side that says, 'Broken Leg.' In the x-ray that appears, there is a crack in my leg. He nods and sits me back in the wheelchair. I start to understand his idea. I have a broken leg. Sean pushes me back up onto the bed, and searches for a leg cast. When he finds one he puts it on me, gives me crutches, and says, his tone all sweet and doctor-like,
"Now, Percy. You've gone and broken your leg. You are going to have to keep the cast on, and no sports for a month." I laugh.
"Yes Dr. Inglis." We both laugh.
"Now it's my turn to be a patient," Sean says.
"Ok. You run in here real fast and say your arm really hurts." I think he gets it. I take the doctor outfit from him and put it on. Then I put the crutches back on the wall where they hang by some wheelchairs, and take the cast off. Sean runs in.
"Doctor, doctor. I hurt my arm and it really hurts. It might be broken!" Sean looks on the verge of tears.
"Ok son. I'll get you fixed up," I joke with him. Pretending to be an old doctor. "Just stand in front of that x-ray mirror there and we'll see if it is broken." I push the 'Broken Arm' button, and the x-ray shows a broken arm. "Yep, just what I thought." I look down at him as an old grandpa would. "You have a broken arm. Now come on over to the table and I'll get you fixed up." We walk over and I find an arm cast in the big cabinet. I put it on him and he walks out to the house. I take off all my stuff. I want to be a farmer now. At the farm, I grow corn and beans. Then, I put the vegetables in a cart and take it to the grocery. Then I decide to go shopping. An abandoned shopping cart sits in one of the isles so that is what I use. There are cans with labels for tomato sauce, soup, fruit, and tons of other things. At the baker shelf, I take a long plastic bread stick. then, there are two isles about three and a half feet tall. In one isle are shelves of boxes. Boxes of cereal, cake mix, oatmeal, and a lot more. The other isle has fruit, vegetables, and dairy. Cheese, milk, oranges, corn, everything you would find in a real grocery store.
"Alright kids. We need to go now. We still have to visit the water room!" Mrs. Sanders obviously wants to get going. I drop what I'm holding in the cart and run. I like water.
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