Snoop Dogg

The other day I was walking along a trail in the city. It was funny because as I walked along, through the trees, blithely kicking sticks out of my path, I realized that I had forgotten to change clothes. I was still in the costume I wore to the party earlier. With my white pants and pink top and butterfly wings firmly attached to my back. After a fleeting moment of panic, and figuring I was at that point in the journey where it was just as far to go back as to move forward, I continued to stroll along. Smiling to myself at the thought of what might be going through other people's heads as they ran across me. Oh well....

It was just about that time when I knew I was not alone on this particular trail.
As I turned down the path and turned my head in the direction of steps, the face I saw coming my way was familiar. A stranger to me, but someone I knew. Mr. Dogg himself. He had no posse, it was just him and me. He was much nicer and more approachable than I would have thought. I did my LA thing of simply ignoring famous people when and if you ran into them. (It assures them the opportunity to pretend they are normal, and you, the un-celebrity, to pretend you couldn't care less).

But he spoke to me and actually walked with me. While we walked out, I felt as if my wings could actually work. I felt them flutter at my back. Snoop noticed and said that was nice get-up I had on. Could be a little fantasy butterfly. As the blush left my cheeks, we winded the path that led toward the beach and headed down. All of a sudden there was this huge noise in the water. We saw what looked like a big wave, then the tail of a whale flung out of the water and back down again. We were both speechless.

We stood there watching for the whale again when instead we saw the slow rising of a submarine in synch with the arrival of a military helicopter. "Run!" I shouted. Snoop grabbed me by the collar as tried to make my way back up the hill, wings fluttering. I told him to hurry. That I thought I could fly us both away from there.
Snoop Dogg insisted that we just go up the way we came down. No need to use my little wings. We'd be fine. He grabbed my hand and we strolled up the hill and back to our original path, helicopter blazing in the background noise.

Then I woke up.