Episode 14:
Lost Keys
Hearing water run, Tracy comes in the bathroom.
"Taking a 'sower', Pop?", she asks him.
"Yes, now get out please.", Rick tells her.
"I take a 'sower' too.", Tracy announces.
"No, you're not gonna take a shower too."
"But I 'awready' took my 'coes off'.", Tracy lets him know.
"Well, you need to put your clothes back on."
"No.", she replies in a whiny voice.
"I'll tell you what. Do you want'a play a game?", he asks her.
"Yeah.", Tracy replies excitedly.
"OK, what game do you wanta play?"
"Hot and 'Code'.", she announces excitedly.
"OK, let Pop finish taking a shower and when I come out, we'll play hot and cold.", Rick tells her.
Tracy leaves and goes to hide Rick's keys that are on an end table.
Harriet is sitting at the kitchen table with a paper and pen when Ozzie comes in.
"Whatch'ya doin'?", he inquires as he takes a Coke out of the fridge.
"I'm thinking about what I can say in my letter to Mother.", Harriet tells him.
"Well, why don't you tell her about the home movies I took of Danny and Tracy last week?", Ozzie suggests. "Or you could tell her about how I caught the biggest fish when I went fishing with Joe and Darby the other day. Or you could tell her how good the fights were last night."
"The home movies you took of Danny and Tracy, yes. How you caught the biggest fish, maybe. But how good the fights were last night, absolutely not.", Harriet replies, in answer to Ozzie's suggestions.
"Why?"
"Why don't you tell your Mother about that?"
"Don't be silly. My Mother's not interested in that kind of stuff.", Ozzie tells her.
"Well then, why would my Mother be?", Harriet wonders.
"I guess you've got a point there."
Harriet starts writing the letter, writing about a couple of the topics that Ozzie suggested.
Rick and Tracy are playing hot and cold when Kris comes in the room.
"Shouldn't you get going?", she says as she points to a clock on the wall.
"You're right.", he tells her. "Tracy, I'm sorry. Our game has to be cut short, OK? I got'ta go to school. Where are my keys?", he wonders out loud. "They were right here on this end table."
" 'Da' keys are hiding.", Tracy tells him.
"I see, and where exactly are the keys hiding?", Rick asks her.
"I don't know.", Tracy replies.
"You don't know or do you just not want'a tell me?"
"If we find out the answer's, you don't want'a tell Pop, you are in so much trouble.", Kris replies firmly.
"I don't know. I forgot.", Tracy says.
"Well, at least there's still time to walk down to Mom and Pop's and get a ride from one of them.", Rick replies. "Tracy, give Pop a kiss. I got'ta go bye bye.", he tells her.
After she does that, he tells her, "I love you, but I will definitely talk to you later."
After he says that, he leaves.
Dave and June are in their room, putting clothes in a Goodwill bag, when Danny comes in the room.
"I want'a put this in there too.", he announces.
"This is your teddy bear. Why do you want'a put Teddy in the bag?", Dave asks him.
"Because, he's only wearing one shoe. That's why I don't like him.", Danny tells him.
"In the first place", June tells him, "this bag is for clothes only, not toys, and in the second place, Teddy's only wearing one shoe because you lost the other one and you need to find it."
"Can I take his clothes off and put those in the bag?", Danny asks.
"No. Come on now, do what Mommy says and find Teddy's other shoe.", Dave tells him. "Pop will help you look.", he continues.
Dave and Danny leave the room to search for the teddy bear's missing shoe.
Rick and Wally are in History class when Wally shows Rick something. His report on Abraham Lincoln had been written in a pen that showed up in different colors.
"I wrote this with the new pen I bought yesterday.", Wally tells him in a whisper.
"You can't do that.", Rick says in a whisper back.
Hearing Rick's words, the teacher asks him a question. "Can't do what Mr. Nelson? Whisper in class?"
"Oh, no Sir,", Wally answers. "Rick was just letting me know that the reports on the presidents had to be written in... I'm sorry, what was it again?", he wonders.
"For those of you who weren't paying attention to the rules of this report, like Mr. Plumstead.", the teacher says as he eyes him suspiciously. "You can only write the report in blue or black pen."
"Told ya.", Rick whispers to Wally.
"Perhaps Mr. Nelson would like to spend some time in the library today. Which is where he'll go if he continues that whispering.", the teacher says.
Rick, as well as the other students, knew that now was a time to be quiet and focus on what the teacher was saying.
Rick comes home from school and tells Tracy, "Go in Pop's room and I'll come talk to you in a little bit. Thank you."
After she does that, Kris asks Rick how his day was.
"Dean Hopkins told me that Kelly got a smiley face on his paper yesterday for writing one of the best stories in the first grade." he tells her, referring to the Dean of his school and his six-year-old son.
"What was the story about?", Kris inquires.
"You and I were his babysitters.", Rick lets her know. "We took him and Tracy to Disney World, where they got to meet Mickey Mouse and all his friends."
"I guess he really had fun when we babysat him huh?", Kris says.
"Dean Hopkins told me that Kelly asks him all the time, 'Daddy, when can Rick and Kris babysit me again?'. Well, I guess I better go in our room and talk to that daughter of ours.", Rick announces.
That being said, he leaves the room.
The next morning after breakfast, June remembers something.
"Dave, I just realized something.", she tells him.
"What's that?", Dave inquires.
"I accidentally put one of my favorite shirts in the goodwill bag."
"In other words, you want me to help you get it out of there, right?"
"Could you please?", June asks him.
"OK.", Dave replies.
"Thank You."
Dave and June are in the living room taking the clothes out of a garbage bag when Danny comes in the room.
"I found Teddy's other shoe.", he announces happily. "It was under my bed."
"That's great. Now, help Mommy and Pop find a shirt that Mommy wants in this bag.", Dave tells him.
"Here it is.", June announces as she takes it out of the bag.
The shirt was a pale yellow long sleeved shirt, with a red rose at the top, a white lilly in the middle, and a blue bonnet at the bottom.
"I don't know what I was thinking when I put that in there." June replies as she picks the unwanted clothes up off the floor and puts them back in the garbage bag.
"Look, Pop.", Tracy announces happily. "I 'foun' your keys."
"That's great.", Rick tells her. "Where were they?"
"In 'da' couch.", Tracy tells him.
"Good. So from now on, you'll hide only your things like we talked about yesterday. That means, if you want'a hide keys, you'll only hide your Fisher Price ones. Promise?"
"I 'pomise'.", Tracy says.
"To remember what Pop taught you."
"To 'Wakey' and back."
"To Waikiki and back. That's right.", he tells her.
He then takes his keys and goes to hang them up on a nail in the closet.