Mel's Miserable Sunday Outing

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Mel’s Miserable Sunday Outing

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Usually an outing for everyone’s favorite belovedM duo would always be fun but sometimes there would just be one of those days where nothing was going to get right, the first thing Mel noticed was that her back felt a bit odd, not sore or achy or anything just odd.  Mel sighed as she got out of bed that morning and had breakfast with the gang, it did not seem like it was going to be a good day - she had decided that unlike last year she would attend the ball,  and she’d go as Ozzy Osbourne, but making breakfast proved to be a problem.

She could not get the toast out of the toaster by hand even when it was turned off because it was almost too hot to the point of slightly burning her finger (but not to an extreme level), then afterwards she could not even take a shower because of the usual problem of Natasha using up the hot water so she had to wait, and even when after she had to wait and even before she was asked out of nowhere by Rachel and Belinda if she’d like to come on a picnic.  ‘Excuse me, where is this damn picnic nonsense coming from? You cannot just ask me to come with you and my other human house-mate like that.’ ‘But you have to, because you cannot leave you here on your own.’  ‘That is just stupid, i’ve been left alone more than once by the staff. And how dare you insist on taking me to another park after the traumatic experience I had at Sunnynook.’  ‘Excuse me?’

‘Yeah, what happened at that Sunnynook place?’  Piff asked. ‘I’ll explain. Because you weren’t introduced until last year,  at the Sunnynook park Mel and I and Oats and some friends all went out to Sunnynook for a walk in the park. Because Natasha is famous for taking long walks, she walked off with both Carmela and Andrea and left all of us behind.  We waited for what seemed like ours and we saw things like monsters and ghosts.’  ‘And some stranger tried to ask Mel if were for sale.’  Oats responded.  ‘Oh and Mel had to hold in her bladder because she could not just go up and ask someone where the toilet was and the only toilet within range was a shady public bathroom.’  ‘To add insult to misery,  it was a shady public bathroom a woman got sexually violated in.’  ‘Ouch,  I can see why she would never want to go to a park again after that.’

Corey looked at Rachel and raised an eyebrow…’What is the big idea here anyway, asking Mel if she wants to come with you guys to a park? I know you can’t leave her here by herself, but come on, we’re her friends, we can help.  I know you think she needs more outings that aren’t shopping related but she gets plenty of those too, it feels like you’re trying to get her to change her very being to meet your needs’ ‘Zalori is the one pushing you to act like this isn’t she?’ ‘Ugh, I thought i spoke to her about this mess.’  Piff groaned.

‘Look we have already gone through this. Mel has no interest in going to the park for lunch, yeah you guys used to do it sometimes on quiet days but this hardly seems like the time and day to be asking her if she wants to go.’  Aiyido the beholder added.  ‘But she has to.’ ‘Yeah yeah, we know, because Mel needs vitamin D.’  ‘Look if this gets to the point I have to keep saying no to every stupid outing we have to go on, i’m not going to go with you.’

Mel took a second shower and this time the water was warm and when she was finished she got dressed and helped the gang all get ready - she felt reluctant about going on, she wasn’t exactly in the best mood and Belinda and Rachel weren’t exactly helping, what didn’t make matters any better was that while she was getting dressed she noticed she didn’t have a pad to wear and as such,  she didn’t know what to do at first,  she was left with either go out of the bathroom with shirts on but no pad on or put her trousers on without a pad underneath.

So she just stuck with the latter and hurried into the bedroom and put it on, before being told it was time to go. ‘What? What do you mean we have to go to the picnic now? Look I just got out of the shower and had to get dressed without a pad at first. I had to get a pad out of the bedroom.  All because one of you forgot to put one out for me. And you didn’t even give me a chance to decide and you just forced this on me. There is no way I am going.’ 

The two staff members immediately started guilt-tripping Mel by telling her of the ‘nice’ things they did for her…’Don’t you guilt trip me Rachel, same with you Belinda. Yeah I know you do nice things for me.  But there is nothing in this for me. Just a picnic lunch? That’s boring.’ ‘Don’t forget the walking for rewards, I could stop getting things for you at any minute if you don’t do things for me.’  ‘I said we should do rewards for walking programs, it was my idea. Without me, there is no walking rewards program!’

Mel tried to tell them she had no interest in going and she didn’t want to be rude, but unfortunately they had different plans for her as she and the gang ended up having to get in the car and heading off to Sylvan Park in Milford. ‘I don’t see why I have to do outings like this, I already had one park outing this week. I had a non-shopping trip yesterday, I don’t need another. I don’t even like going out in public parks.’  ‘Come on, Mel, you always say you don’t like it when you actually end up liking it.’

She  sighed and rolled her eyes, it had not been her week at all and her she was, thrust into something she didn’t want to do.  When they all arrived at the park they jumped out of the car as Corey and Oats and all the others played, Piff decided to keep Mel company along with Tino the shark and Tangie.  ‘I know you didn’t exactly ask for this week to happen yet alone end like this, but it’s going to be alright.’  ‘No it’s not, Belinda and Rachel are acting like they can tell me where I should be going. Did I ask to be taken to this absolute snorefest?  No. So I emailed mom and told them that I was being taken to an unauthorized picnic without my permission to do so and that I needed rescuing. I am THAT distressed about being here.’

‘Come on, we’ve had picnics before.’ Corey added. ‘Yeah but I am not in the mood for one yet here I am having one here. And it’s not making my mood any better.’  ‘I’m sorry you don’t look like you are enjoying it.’ The group all had egg sandwiches and crisps, Mel only had two sandwiches and the crisps and nothing else, not even a drink, she couldn’t make up her mind on what she wanted to eat.

While Rachel was modelling her latest hairstyle, Mel was rolling her eyes. ‘Oh brother, you look ridiculous in that. I’m sorry but someone like you should not be asking how to get your hair done in the style of cornrolls. You look like a hasbeen retired rapper who is trying to relive their glory days but is just falling flat on their face.’   ‘I look like a retired rapper? Well then I could be rude about your outfit or your hair but I don’t want to. You know what they say, it’s okay to think it but not okay to say it.’  ‘Oh quit it with that crap. Not everyone has to sugarcoat what they say, you know. Rachel, being new to this whole entire being team leader thing does not excuse your poor choices in behavior.  Look, people can be cruel and bitter, not everyone lives in the magic land of Happy Nice Commentland like you do.  Sometimes we have bad days and we have moments in which we lash out and get angry. Right now I am pissed, you barely know enough about me to even understand what I want and what I don’t want.’

Mel sighed and sobbed. ‘Well someone’s being very negative today.’  ‘Considering you two dragged Mel into this mess I would not be saying that’  Piff responded. Belinda and Rachel’s guilt tripping of Mel was interrupted by Natasha going off near the dam to go to the bathroom, and by that, she just felt like unleashing the contents of her bladder on the grass. ‘Did you two see that? While you were busy trying to guilt-trip our friend, Natasha just did what she did at Belmont all those months ago and took a leak on the grass like some kind of animal.’  

Rachel then bemoaned how she thought their picnic was ruined because of Mel and because of Natasha taking a leak on the grass. ‘Now look who is being little Miss Negative.’  ‘Don’t rub it in, Piff.’ ‘Oh but I am and I enjoy rubbing it in. Face it, it’s karma. You dragged Mel into this mess, now you’ve got two equally big messes to deal with.’  Rachel and Belinda fed some of the birds the leftover egg sandwiches only for Mel to make another sardonic comment. ‘Don’t you think it’s kind of ironic for you to be feeding eggs to a bird?’ ‘Uh noo….why?’ ‘Because you know, birds come from eggs and you’re essentially feeding them their unborn children?’  ‘Mel, don’t be so morbid.’  ‘I am sorry but it’s true, just because sea-gulls will eat anything doesn’t mean they’ll those sandwiches. Heck, Belinda could not eat that many.’

 

After they had their picnic they headed back into the car and headed to Harvey Normal, Mel and Natasha and the others waited in the car with Belinda as Rachel bought some things before coming back and when she came back they all began to drive off back to Nile Road, Mel still feeling a bit peeved off and sad. ‘Honestly I hope this nightmare ends on a good note.’  ‘I think it will, hang in there Mel.’  Tino the shark responded.

While the two women were talking about what activities Natasha went to, Rachel asked about taking the whole group out bowling which got Mel responding with…’In your dreams, Rachel. I don’t do bowling or any sort of sport, I am not athletic.’ ‘Oh but you are athletic. I have seen it, come on be adventurous.’  Belinda retorted.  ‘I am adventurous, I did not see the point of this trip, I already felt miserable this week because of Ozzy dying. I did not need this. I feel like i’m hit with a curse that i’ve been cursed with ever since I came to this country and that’s the curse of losing a musician I love. First it was Michael, then David Bowie, then Prince, then George Michael,  and then Dio, and then Meat Loaf and now Ozzy as well?’

‘I know but that’s hardly our fault.’  ‘I know it’s not, but you couldn’t have timed a picnic to be arranged at a happier time for me?  I know he was one of those rockstars who had a reputation in his performances for being a bad boy and the whole sex, drugs and rock n roll malarky but come on, he was an icon to many a generation of metal-heads. It was his music that Christian parents tried to ban for supposedly being evil,  Christian parents were hyper conservative about it to the point of calling it Satanic.  I think you should know how much this means to me, I need time to get over what happened.  Yes, he’s a dead heavy metal rock icon who lived a hard life and notoriously snorted ants and bit off a bat’s head and turned into a werewolf, but he was also a fun and loving dad and even though I was not related to him, I felt like I could relate to him.  I love that deceased heavy-metal rock icon/wholesome rock dad. ’  ‘Yeah, she does. And to be honest, I have to ask, why do you even assume Mel would be interested in bowling anyway? Sports and bowling aren’t her thing, that’s Natasha’s thing.’  ‘The only thing worthwhile about bowling is playing the arcade games and trying to win prizes.’ Mel responded.  ‘Well you could do that.’  Belinda responded.

Rachel sprung the idea of inviting the Belmont crew over for afternoon tea which got Mel to roll her eyes again. ‘We don’t DO that any more. Yeah we used to do that at Christmas or when a new staff member joins the crew but when was the last time we ever held a party here for anyone that was not someone’s own birthday?  And when was the last time we had an introductory party for a staff member?’  ‘Absolutely. I mean we don’t need to be involved in their adventures too. Belmont has its own separate adventures and yeah we cross over with those guys for a meeting and the obligatory Christmas party episode, we don’t need to do regular crossovers with those guys.’

“There’s nothing to their episodes anyway.”

“And I doubt that Jessica and the others there even know who we are.”

Mel’s mood lightened up more and more and by the time they all got back home and she jumped out of the car, she had gotten a lot better mood-wise and had gone from hating it to admitting it was an alright outing but it wasn’t her favorite thing to do.  They all had afternoon tea at home and they relaxed for a little bit before talking to each-other.

Then they talked to Jill on the phone before getting ready for dinner, and after dinner they all played together and had fun as Mel emailed Jill about their adventure. Piff and Tangie went fishing and caught a lot of fish before playing some games and having a karaoke session.  When their fun session had ended they all had a relaxation session with Piff and Tangie doing some ASMR videos and playing Guess the Bathroom Scent,  as Corey and Oats put their night-clothes on.

They all brushed their teeth and hurried into the bedroom as Piff initiated a special version of his famous closedown sequence which featured the anthropomorphic pufferfish in a sad mood for a bit only to lighten up as the pufferfish jumped around in his home, his sad appearance morphing into a happy one as the daytime background morphed into a night-time one and he yawned and brushed his teeth as he jumped into bed as a goodnight message appeared on screen,  he jumped into bed and his clothes morphed into pajamas as he drifted off to sleep.

Piff jumped into bed and sighed as he kissed Tangie and gave a goodnight speech which was: ‘Sometimes we all have bad days and bad moods, and even reasons as to why we have them, if someone acts up and they’re not being rude, it’s just not their day and we certainly learned that, but of course it is time to let bad things behind us as it is time to sleep. But we will see you again tomorrow, love from Piff and all the other pals at Nile Road’  before laying down as Anglo turned off the light.

They all drifted off to sleep as did Piff and they all had sweet dreams as they did so, Mel’s nightmare of an adventure had come to an end and she knew a better one would be round the corner the next day, so she drifted off to sleep with everyone else and had happy dreams.  And even though their adventure had come to an end, more are coming up, so stay tuned.