The Great Smelling Bee (2005)
“is a good guy. Of course I gave him a break.
A few minutes later, I made the tin cat open its paws. “So sorry, dude,” I said. “I just can’t ever work these things.”
Sherman staggered to his feet. His cheeks were bright purple. “Thanks, Bernie. That was a close one,” he said. He picked up the robot cat and shook it hard. “Bad boy! Bad boy!” he scolded. “No fresh batteries for you tonight.” Sherman turned to me. “He likes it when I change his batteries.”
“Glad I could rescue you,” I said. “This is my lucky day, after all.”
Sherman squinted his sky blue eyes at me. “Huh? Your lucky day?”
I nodded. “Yeah, dude. It’s my lucky day.” I pulled a bunch of raffle tickets from my pocket. “Check these out. Pizza oven raffle tickets. I bought the last ten tickets.”
Sherman stared at the tickets in my fist. “You bought the last ten tickets?”
“I have the last ten raffle tickets. And I wouldn’t sell them to anyone.”
I waved them slowly in front of his face.
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