OK, What's A Druddle?

OK, What's a Druddle?

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By rscholz@comcast.net

t first these helpful caring drones were called Cuddle Drones, but a popular young comedian on the web thought it would be funny to call them 'Druddles' and the name caught on almost instantaneously as things will do now that we are all caught up in the World Wide Web. Old people, at first, thought kids were getting Dreidels - those old-timey spinny top toys.

But once they saw a Janice and her new friend Druddle they realized how wrong they were… as they often are when trying to keep up with all the new things that are happening.

Janice is six years old; happy and a bit precocious. Her parents bought I feel like a Spinning Top or her a Druddle for her sixth birthday. The first Druddle that Janice a Dreidel – Don Mclean bonded with looked like a flying chipmunk, very cute. She called her Druddle "Chippie." Janice’s parents aren’t exactly well-to-do, but they want Janice to have a chance at economic stability, so they made the necessary sacrifices and bought her a pretty capable Druddle. Some parents just want to give their kids a chance.

What does a Druddle do?

A Druddle is a companion and a protector. It flies around and will come when it’s called.

The child who has bonded with a Druddle can see what the Druddle sees. For example, Janice lost her first Druddle when she sent it down to the playground to see if any of her friends were playing down there and also to make sure none of the bully girls were hanging out, waiting to cause trouble. Her little flying Chipmunk was so cute and so fun.

Since Janice could see what her Druddle could see she saw her friends Margaret and Elizabeth playing on the swings but she also saw that mean girl Beatrice waiting by the entrance to the playground. Beatrice liked to poke people with hat pins. Maybe her brother was mean to her or something, who knows? Anyways, Janice decided to stay home. As Janice's Druddle Chippie was coming back home from the playground it ran smack into the side of a tripledecker bus, fell into a puddle and got run over by a young man on a motor scooter. Ouch! What a muddle. For Janice, it was simply A Triple Decker Bus...! tragic. She'd only begun to learn how to fly her precious Druddle and now Chippie was... well, kaput.

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Never fear...!

Janice's Grandma, Grandma Pat, who lives in a tall tall tower in Windsor, Ontario heard about Chippie's demise when she talked to Janice's Mom on the phone on Sunday. The very next day she came down from her condo on the 22nd floor and walked to a nearby toy store. It was a windy rainy day at the end of March. The fierce wind pushed her this way and that and almost blew away her nice red hat. The rain spittered and sputtered and at the top of her boots her red wool socks got wet. But Grandma Pat was on a mission. She knew a Grandma's Primary Purpose in Life is to step in and help her grandchildren when they need help. Her personal motto, when it came to her grandchildren was, “Never fear, Grandma's here..!”

Once she made it to the toy store she took off her wet raincoat and hung it by the door. She liked this toy store because it had been in business for a long long time. It had wooden floors and a coat hangar by the front door: very homey. Melody, the pretty young lady who owned the store was the grand daughter of the couple who started the store back in the 1920's.

Amazingly the toy store survived the Great Depression; probably because her grand parents both loved to garden and grew so many vegetables that they had plenty to sell in their store to help them make ends meet.

Grandma Pat asked asked the young lady behind the counter for a glass that Dribbles, you know, a 'Dribble Glass'. Apparently when Janice's Mom told her about Chippie's demise she misheard the word “Druddle.”

Careful... Oh look

Melody smiled and asked, “Why does your granddaughter want a what you've done!

Dribble Glass? As she listened to the somewhat confusing answer it didn't take long for Melody to figure out that what Grandma Pat's granddaughter wanted was a Druddle.

Why? Because every young girl wants a Druddle as a companion these days. She had sold two this morning already and it was only a little after 10. So Grandma Pat bought Janice the best Druddle that the toy store had for sale.

Janice got her new Druddle when her Mom brought her to Windsor on Easter. Of course, Janice was delighted. Beside herself with joy, really. At the Easter Egg Hunt, Janice, with lots of help from her new Druddle found many colorful plastic eggs filled with candy.

Go Janice Go...!

Hooray for Druddles...!

But please don't eat all that Easter candy at once – so much sugar will send you spinning right into outer space and your Druddle can't fly where there isn't any air so it won't be able to Save You. ### END ###

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