TEDDY BOY & EMMA

The bus journey from the caravan site to Hove took close to an hour. Teddy Boy didn’t swim, he watched with Emma’s mum at the side of the pool. Later, with Emma dried, dressed and feeling that particular post swim hunger they went to meet her dad in the vast ’30s restaurant. He ordered fish then immediately declared it ‘off’ to the waiter. He refused to pay and threatened to throw the food across the restaurant. Emma and her mum retreated to the bathroom downstairs as the argument escalated. After a silent bus journey back to the caravan Emma discovered that Teddy Boy was missing. Her mother refused to go back to look for him. Emma explained that she didn’t know how she would break the news of Teddy Boy’s fate to the other toys and her father relented. He took the same bus journey back and had to calmly ask the same waiter he’d shouted at if a female member of staff could search the bathroom. The cleaner offered to look, she came out giggling and beckoned Emma’s dad inside. Sitting patiently on the edge of the toilet seat was Emma’s Teddy Boy.

23 Oct 2011