So, there I was, in my
moon-suit, searching for
moon-rocks, when
what should I notice,
stuck on the bottom of my
moon-boot,
but the most curious thing
that had ever found on the
moon —
***
a pirate’s treasure map!
***
Pirate’s treasure?
It seemed too fantastic
to be true.
***
Was I dreaming?
***
I asked Mission Control
to pinch me,
but they said my suit was
not equipped for remote
pinches.
***
But, no matter, anyway,
because my life as an inter-stellar explorer of new worlds & new life-forms was about to get
a whole lot less boring.
***
NASA urgently pleaded for me
to ‘get my head on straight’ and
return to the pod immediately,
or risk being stranded on the
the moon for-ever!
***
Couldn’t they understand?
Only forty-eight hours earlier
I had landed on the moon,
without a dime in my pocket,
and now NASA was ordering
me to return to earth
without the pirate treasure?
Were they crazy?
***
I searched for days and days
***
And then, tired and hungry,
it was then flipped
over the map and
noticed something …
***
Printed on the flip side of
the treasure map, was
a children’s lunch menu!
***
Suddenly, all the pieces
began to fall into place:
the crossword puzzle,
the find-a-word,
Captain Hardee’s ™ suggestion
I ask my parents for
permission to use crayons.
***
Good Lord, I said to myself.
This is a children’s placemat!
‘Choke’
***
Oh, woe is my tale, dear readers.
What had I done?!”
I had risked everything for nothing.
***
But do you know something?
***
It was right about then, an order
of Captain Hardee’s ™ chicken
fingers
was starting to sound pretty
good
***
I grabbed the placement
and put it in my top space-pocket.
***
“NASA, I think I will staying
here a little bit longer”,
I said, confidently, winking
to no one in particular.
***
Above me the pod lights flickered.
***
“There is a moon-Hardee’s to be discovered!”
I declared, before passing out.
***
to be continued…
2.
our first adventure outside since March
t r e f o l o g y 
But how did the placemat get there in the first place? This will keep me up at night.
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I assume he unknowingly brought it with him. Maybe it was stuck on the bottom of his foot the whole time
*** Fixed it.
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LOL! :D This story is out of this world!
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Thanks, Mermaid!
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Lunacy.
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Hah!
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This is why you listen to Mission Control.
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You are correct!
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Haha! Great story.
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome 😉
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A brilliant tref-about! I hope when our poor moon explorer splashes back down to earth they treat him to as much Captain Hardee’s™ as he can eat.
Voodoo Doughnuts? That is just the coolest!
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“A tref-about” Ilikeit! Thanks, VTA
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Houston? Did you just prank me?
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If not Houston, El Paso? Laredo?
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Mission Control, Major Tom😜 If not Bowie, than Hanks.
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It was a treasure map disguised as a child’s place mat. You didn’t see the little black monolith printed in tiny ink? It’s akin to finding Waldo, but it’s there. The aliens only wanted brilliant treasure map analysts to see the black monolith and figure out its location. You should have taken HAL 9000 along with you (albeit at your own risk). Oh well. For now at least, the Star Child has been aborted. Maybe someone in 2101 can give it another try?
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Please be advised that I wore moon boots while reading.
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Good lad! Speaking for all of us here at moon-Wordpress, home of the celebrated moon-block editor, we moon/salute you.
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You are so funny! This was a great post!
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Thanks, Diane!
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TREASURE MAT PLACE MAP / LOCATES HARDEE’S ON THE MOON / LAST SEEN ON STAR TREF
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Star tref is right!
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MOON CHICKEN FINGERS / FIVE TIMES MORE CRISPY PIECES / AND THE BUCKET FLOATS
From The Deep Fried Milky Way by Spaceman Spiff
Before Trefology went to the moon, I was only able to forget everything I learned in school by reading Calvin & Hobbes. Their creator, Bill Watterson, painted a copy of the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of his College dorm room while majoring in political science. Figures.
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Hah! Ah, yes, the great Bill Watterson. He ended Calvin & Hobbes way too soon. Seems almost forgotten these days, short of seeing the dreaded ‘peeing’ Calvin decal on the side of pick ’em up trucks.
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Sad but true. Those decals may be retribution from Opus Dei for Watterson’s copying the Creation of Adam on his dorm room ceiling.
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Could be Opus Neight, too, for they work in the shadows!
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The shadows know.
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Thanks, dbb2
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Wow! Sign me up with that marketing company if they can reach the moon with their message. Sadly I have never heard of “Captain Hardee’s” here on earth. I think I am more interested in Voodoo Doughnuts!
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Yeh, Voodoo doughnuts are so good. Back, long ago, my parents took me on a trip to New York and I saw a Hardee’s, and to me it was a very big deal, because like Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee, the Good Humor man, and Dunkin’ Doughnuts, these were things I only knew of from the pages of Mad Magazine.
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Oh, so Hardee’s is a real thing. I would still like to find the Voodoo doughnuts.
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I love, LOVE this one. I was thoroughly enchanted and amused.
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That is very kind, thank you so much, SS.
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Good
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Donut stop believing ;-)
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I’m old fashioned like that.
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I had to look up Voodoo Donuts :-)
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They’re darn good. Fortunately for me they are also very far away.
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