Kickass and statue of liberty

Kickass, the doorstop dog, understands the keeper’s dilemma in reviewing his experience of endangering the Statue of Liberty lest

it is copied by the current Washington wrecking crew.

As a typical tourist the keeper was on that very narrow circular stairs leading to the Lady’s crown. So were a lot of other people. The keeper could look down and see them on the ladder/stairs just below.

And then it struck, the keeper’s travel revolt: without warning and as ominous as a clicking timebomb—the keeper’s guts cramped up and consumed the rest of his being with the signal to get to a bathroom RIGHT NOW!

The tourist line moved agonizingly slow and the keeper grew increasingly desperate as he noted all those directly below.

Finally at the top, the keeper didn’t even think about looking out through the crown’s viewing apertures but virtually ran to the down ladder and got in line. During the tourist-paced descent the keeper’s brain told him the worst thing he could do would be to cry as his sphincter muscles turned to steel that felt as if they might not be strong enough for the control job at hand.

The experience proved that those big ass muscles can both exert incredible control forces and help you walk at the same time, if you take really tiny little steps, of course.

The keeper has relayed the story to Phyllis who has visited the Statue but has not climbed up inside it. She is smarter than the keeper in many ways and seems to talk less and less about traveling with him.