WAR: Cousins: How NOT to do a Toronto Tour (1/1)
By: Arletta
Date: Monday, November 8
Time:  3pm - 7pm
  After  "Beware of Cousins Bearing Gifts" and "We're All Mad Here"
  Before "Get Thee to A Monastery"
Place:  CERK
All participants used with permission.


Will was excited.  Will was perky.  He'd been "Perky Cousin Will"
since before there was even a faction by that name - and he was
even perkier than his usually annoying level of perkiness because
he was getting to do his Third Favorite Thing in the Whole Wide
World, namely giving a tour of Toronto to his fellow Cousinly
visitors!  "Woohoo!!!" he was thinking, occasionally out loud.

Dashing into the CERK building, everyone could hear his call,
"Tour time, tour time!!!"

Most of the Cousins milling about in the CERK lobby were excited
about the tour; although a few also had some trepidation,
thinking, 'We're putting our lives into the hands of Perkyness?"

"Oh," said Cousin Kezia in a strong Cockney accent, who was
standing by the reception desk, "a tour! May I come too?"

"Sure," Will said, "the more the merrier."

So Cousin Stan, ever the gallant gentleman, tucked the well-dressed
Cousin's three pieces of matching dark turquoise luggage behind
the couch on which the dog named Brandon lay, apparently sleeping.

And all the Cousins trooped out the door following Will.

********

Four hours later, the same group of Cousins, returned. They were
now bedraggled, bewildered, bruised, and with jangled nerves due
to careening down the streets of Toronto much too fast along with
other assorted mishaps too numerous to mention in this short tale.

"Who's up for dinner now? I know this great Thai restaurant!"
announced Will.

A mutual groan was heard.

"No, I ... uh ... have other plans." said quick thinking Bob.

"Yeah, me too," announced Brandi.

Bri with her badly tromped foot still throbbing, merely glared
at the ever Perky Cousin.

And the rest of the Cousins fled.