“Can you take Flat Stanley on a trip? It’s either I send him to you or Ramzy, (my grandson), but I decided I want Stanley to come see you, so you can take him with you on a trip and take some pictures. He needs to go on an adventure.”
She goes on about the project and says her teacher will be mailing out a package with directions and Flat Stanley on Monday. Seven going on 40! She sounds like a travel agent brokering Stanley’s next itinerary!
After the call, I wonder: what the hell is a Flat Stanley? Glad GOOGLE is around to find out…….
Well, it’s taken from a book written in 1963 by Jeff Brown. Stanley and his younger brother Arthur are gifted with a large bulletin board by their dad, Mr. Lambchop. He wants the boys to use it to display posters and pictures. Mr L hangs the board on the wall over Stanley’s bed. While he is sleeping one night the board falls off the wall and flattens Stanley as he lays sleeping. He survives, and begins living life as a flat person- being able to slide under doors, etc, and even being used as a kite by Arthur. Stanley is then mailed off in an envelope to visit friends for an adventure. Stanley tires of the “flat life,” so Arthur blows him back up to his normal shape with a bicycle pump.
OK, I decide, we can have some fun with this….Rogue and I are heading south in a few days….and Lil Fij, our Key West Virgin decided to come along after graduating MMI, so Stanley was just in time to ride shotgun in the “43rd Annual Phil Peterson’s Key West Poker Run.” However, snail mail was a little slow getting Stanley to us, so we had to peel out, and ended up making a new Stanley on the road! (Thank you Google Images!)
Miami, here we come!
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