Thursday, October 18, 2012

A....marking stick?


“Dear Cocoa,

I love my pets and find that living with them is wonderful; except for a few minor things that still confuse me.  One of them is this:  my pets have these long cylinder-like things that they somehow use to make marks on things.  I have tried to check these things out, but every time I get close enough, my pets take it away.  I mean, I even hid it under the couch so I could study it and they searched the entire room till they found it.  What are these things?

Signed Wondering”

“Dear Wondering,

You have stumbled upon a ‘marking stick’.  Yes, human pets love these marking sticks.  They use them for everything.  And they have so many different shapes and sizes that trying to figure them all out will make your head spin.  And the worst part is, they have some kind of spell or something on these marking sticks so that only they can make them work.  I have studied them for years and cannot figure that part out, but I promise you, I will.  And when I do, I will devote an entire column on it.

Signed Cocoa”