In the secret room with the little window was one corner formed between the brick chimney that came from the living room below and the edge of the house. When you entered the secret room it was through this corner (I am sure at this point that you have a completely different picture of what this room looks like than I do but it really doesn’t matter) and this was the only area that had a proper floor so naturally this was to be the place to have the shelf.

Now every child knows that you have to have a shelf cause where else do you put your cool stuff unless you have a cool box but I didn’t. So with a little scrounging a shelf became part of the room and on the shelf cool stuff collected. Some cool rocks, poptop chains, coins of great value and other stuff but I didn’t know then as I do now that great ideas have to go somewhere or they die. So the desert still idea floated up to the back of the shelf and stayed there hidden.

After a while I had to go eat or pee or something so I crawled out of the secret room and for a while I left the shelf and the brilliance behind. Not until a cold rainy autumn day about a month later did I get back to the secret room. I had no reason to go there but to have fun so there I was having fun with some cool stuff and noticed on the back of the shelf a great idea. What was weird was I didn’t know how this great idea had landed on the shelf. I wasn’t sure if it belonged to me or was stolen from some genius somewhere or better yet from some movie. There is a small chance that it had drifted up off of my dad’s white hair but in any case there it was grinning at me.

Now that was really annoying…

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