It\u2019s amazing, some of the memories that stay with you\nthroughout your life. I\u2019m not talking about those that had a profound impact\nand shaped your life as you know it. Rather, I am referring to the innocuous\nones that may suddenly pop up into one\u2019s mind many years later, leaving them\nwondering if it really happened or if it was just a dream. One such memory that\nI have is of an old cartoon that I watched on TV as a child. I never knew the\ntitle as I had stumbled upon it by chance while flicking channels one morning\nduring the school holidays and my recollection of some of the scenes are rather\nhazy, but the way that it all unfolded is still clear in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story begins with a beast of some sort passing by a\ncomplete stranger\u2019s home during a morning stroll. I can\u2019t quite recall if it\nwas an anthropomorphic hippo, rhino, gorilla, bear or just some random monster\nconjured up by the artist, but he definitely wasn\u2019t human. Having quickly\nsurmised that no one is home he takes a quick peek inside through a window and\nspots an unguarded cake on the kitchen table, immediately triggering hunger\npangs. He casually enters through the front door and devours the cake, enjoying\nevery mouthful of it and if I remember correctly he then takes a page out of\nGoldilocks\u2019 playbook and dozes off in the bedroom, having achieved food coma\nafter scoffing that entire cake on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile the owner of the home, a creature similar to the\nintruder, returns to his humble abode following his own morning walk. He walks through\nthe front door that he had failed to lock before leaving and was predictably\nfurious upon discovering that a stranger had broken into his home and eaten his\nprecious cake before sleeping on his bed. He immediately sets out to find the\nculprit, huffing and puffing with rage all the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oooohhhh I\u2019ma put\nhands on that fool!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah well, serves you right for not locking up your house in\nthe first place, buddy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The hungry thief had conveniently left a trail of footprints in his wake as he fled into the surrounding forest and the homeowner follows the trail with vengeance on his mind and that brings us to the part that made me laugh as a child and is forever burned in my memory; The homeowner initially follows the trail on foot but sometime along the way, the footprints eventually became a trail of hand prints and the homeowner actually does a handstand<\/em> and continues to follow the trail while walking on his hands! It then transitions into a combination of hand and footprints and so he drops down on all fours and bear-crawls the next few steps before the trail changes into single footprints that he hops along to as though he is playing hopscotch in the playground. The homeowner continues to follow this trail, his movements dictated by the prints before him, unaware that the thief is watching him from behind some bushes, laughing at the wild goose chase that he had set his patsy on while making him look ridiculous in the process. Talk about getting away with murder and then some. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And that was that. Following that short cartoon I switched off the TV and set off to play computer games. I never would have thought then, as a ten year old, that I\u2019d still remember the best bits of some random cartoon that I ran into by chance many years later as a grown adult. The mind is quite an amazing thing, isn\u2019t it? One thing\u2019s for sure, that cartoon drilled home into my young mind the importance of keeping one\u2019s home safe and secure. You just never know if or when some thief who is adept at walking on their hands and <\/em>feet might be itching to steal something of yours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s amazing, some of the memories that stay with you throughout your life. I\u2019m not talking about those that had a profound impact and shaped your life as you know it. Rather, I am referring to the innocuous ones that may suddenly pop up into one\u2019s mind many years later, leaving them wondering if it … <\/p>\n