It Was Love At First Sight........

We Had Intended On Bringing Home A Capuchan Monkey But Instead Brought Home A Babboon! I Had Read Many Articles About Capuchan Monkey's And How Intelligent They Are. Caphuchan Monkeys Are The Most Common Primate To Aid In Paraplegic Or Quadriplegic. They Are Trained To Turn On And Off Lights, Small Appliances, Fetch Or Retrieve Items. They Will Turn Pages Of A Book Or Insert Money In A Vending Machine. We Made Telephone Arrangements To Pick It Up On Sunday In Ohio. As We Entered In The Business We Were Escorted To Where Our Capuchan Was Waiting For Our Arrival. On Our Route I Was Greeted By AN Extended Arm Through The Bars Of A Cage. It Was Like She Said Come Over Here And Shake My Hand. Take Me Home. I Brought This To Billie's Attention And She Told Me To Ignore Her Because Our Capuchan Was In The Next Room And Besides That, She Was Ugly! I Just Couldn't Bring Myself To Not Give Her My Full Attention, And She Was Not Ugly! I Did Eventually Make Myself To Where Our Monkey Was Waiting. The Caphuchan Was Really Timid And Didn't Seem To Want To Be Social With Us. I Looked Over My Shoulder To Where The Other Monkey Was Caged. She Kept Staring At Me As To Say, Please Take Me Home....... Guess What?? We Took Her Home. However It Wasn't That Easy. We Had No Idea At That Moment That This Experience Would Be Etched In Our Memory Forever. About 25 miles Into Our Trip Home Disaster Struck. Our Car Began Running Hot. The Next Thing I Knew The Car Had Caught Fire And We became Stranded On The Interstate Highway With A Baboon Who Has No Idea What Was Going On. A Passing Trucker Stopped And Put The Fire Out And Radioed For A Police Officer To Respond. The State Trooper Called A Wrecker For Us So We Could Get Off The Highway. The Tow Truck Driver Took Us To A Gas Station In This Small Town East Of Indianapolis With Nothing Other Than That Gas Station. No Bus Station, No Cab Service. Here Billie, And I And This Babboon Who Has No Idea Who We Are, Are Sitting At This Gas Station Offering People Money To Drive Us Back To Danville. After Sitting There For More Than 2 Hours We Finally Convinced A Couple To Drive Us To Danville. We Gave Them The Title To The Car Plus 100.00. As You Might Have Guessed I Was Getting To Believe That This Was Not A Good Start For The Beginning Of A Long Term Relationship With A Papio Babboon. It Was Late When We Arrived Home With Brandi. Trying To Get Acquainted With One Another Was My Main Objective. Unfortunate For Me Brandi Had No Desire To Get Acquainted With Me. She Was Stuck On Billie. Maybe That Was For The Best At The Time Since I had To Be At Work First Thing In The Morning. This Memory Would Only Be The First Of Many In The Coming Years OF My Life With Brandi........ Just Call Me Mac....