I'm Piper Cinnabon, (name changed to protect the innocent). It was a cold and dreary morning walking the cold and dreary New York streets with my girlfriend, Cynthia, a bewitching, African-American woman with the complexion of hot chocolate (she was equally as soothing and warming on cold mornings, I might add).
I had already treated her to a delicious Egg McMuffin breakfast (without coupons). I was so much in love, I even sprang for hash browns (I am considering a class action lawsuit because once again, I found no hash anywhere in the crunchy potatoes.
Wandering aimlessly through the busy Midtown throng, we noticed one of those "Escape the Room" joints that seem to pop up every other day. Today's theme was "The Purloined Pussy!" With such an intriguing name we had to saunter inside, holding hands and giggling like two juniors on our way to gym class, where that special teacher would watch us shower and... sorry, I seem to be rambling like an old Allman Brothers song.
Once inside, we listened to the standard prattle explaining the game; 'work together to solve puzzles or riddles to obtain clues to solve the case in under an hour.' Or maybe it was thirty minutes... I become an ADD poster child when staring wide-eyed, mouth open, at Cynthia's curvy bottom. It's so embarrassing to drool in public. Strangers think I'm having a stroke and paramedics are called... very humiliating, but her ass makes it worthwhile. Even if my insurance premiums are Hell.
I only snapped from my reverie when the teen girl instructing us, revealed the very misleading case we were to solve. True enough, there is a Purloined pussy, but it's a fucking feline... and I despise cats. They are lazy and aloof, (too much like me, in other words.) So I pleaded with Cynthia to return home and sit on my face. My pleading was perhaps too loud, at least, according to the large Amish family standing behind us.
"Nice bonnets," I told them, hoping to ease the tension. They quickly offered to build a barn for me, but barns might be against the building code in Manhattan since I've yet to see one... now, Queens, that is another story. Queens is a regular "Green Acres." We walked single file into our first goal, a den-like room with five overturned litter boxes.
The smell of ammonia had me dizzy and reeling, like my first time with a certain gym teacher... damn, there I go again. My wanton imagination brought my eyes to Mother Amish. If she wore that bonnet with a cute, sheer teddy, she would hot! Once again, I was jerked back to reality when my girlfriend poked me severely.
"Are you ok? You look like you're having a stroke," she enquired compassionately. I blushed and placed my hand on her bottom, only to hear the Amish followers, especially Mom, gasp with righteous indignation... jealousy is such a bad trait, not righteous at all. But they all weren't appalled. I heard Teenage Daughter Amish asking if there was somewhere she could change her "bloomers." I wasn't wearing bloomers, but my thong needed replacing like the original Darren on "Bewitched." The first clue was then located in an envelope, on a messy desk. I read aloud:
"The more you take, the more you leave behind?" Everyone stood around looking to me for a solution like I was Paul Lynde on "Hollywood Squares."
"Elementary," I retorted in my best Benedict Cumberbatch dialect. The answer is (Wait for it!)... footprints. At which point we went en masse to the next room, following a very visible set of footprints through generic cat food, the loud crunching making conversation impossible, so I resorted to sign language. While looking at Cyn, I spread my index and middle fingers wide then let my tongue slither between them enticingly. The international language.
Mom Amish watched, screamed, "Mein Gott," and immediately crashed to the ground like the Hindenburg.
"Oh, the humanity!" I cried.
Cynthia discovered the footprints led to a manilla (or "vanilla" as my chocolate kiss pronounced it so cutely that had to pinch her cheek, accompanied with baby talk). Again I read aloud..." Can you name three consecutive days without using Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday?" My crew looked baffled..." rank amateurs," I hissed before walking to the Game of Thrones calendar on the wall.