Sophie Has A Brainwave - 28

      Egbert was a show host on a radio station.  He was known to his listeners as Dr. Eg.  Listeners would phone in with their problems and he would try to solve them.  Ansel came to work with him one day to see what his father did.
      Dr. Eg had his own office with a long table with lots of storage containers containing compact discs underneath it.  He liked this better than a desk as he had more room for his legs which were long.  He was seven feet one inch tall. 
     Between calls, he played music (hence the compact discs) and occasionally munched on chocolate chip cookies, making a trail of cookie crumbs.
      Dr. Eg was just about to answer a question on the air about how to treat dengue fever with homeopathy when he noticed a marching line of ants at his feet heading for the cookie crumbs.  He didn't miss a beat.  He made a mental note that action needed to be taken about the ants and answered the dengue fever question with aplomb.  Almost.  He told the caller on the other end of the phone to treat her dengue fever with um ants and then he said, I mean this and that and the other remedy in a special dengue fever formula!
     He got rid of the ants with petroleum jelly which he then slipped in and went home.

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      He drove home in the horse and buggy with Ansel and called, Honey I'm home, and kissed his wife.  She smelt of that sugary sweet vanilla flavour that hits you when you walk into a diner that serves milkshakes.  (It was her perfume.)

     Did you hear that call from Mr. Cleveland today? he asked her.

     Oh, Cleveland? she answered, her eyes lighting up.  The name Cleveland has great significance to me, she said.  When I was a seven-year-old, I was given a Cleveland coloured pencil set.  I was filled with so much awe and gratitude at this beautiful pencil set, the name is forever ingrained in my mind.  I'm still using them...Yes, I heard the call.

     And then he told her about the cookie crumbs.

To Be Continued