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I was sorting out some piles in the entry way, and I left the door ajar. It never really closes properly anymore, which is a story for another time. I hear this scratching noise, turn around, and spot a goblin hurrying out the door while clutching my blue tooth keyboard. You left my sandwich lying right there, and took an old keyboard instead? Come on.
I knew it was probably too late to get it back. Those things are fast. What a drag. Old cell phones are easy to get, but blue tooth keyboards not so much. I guess I am back to tapping the on-screen keyboard again for sending my stuff.
I follow it outside anyways, and I see it scrambling up the embankment. And then this other one pops out from the trees and starts giving it chase. The thief takes my keyboard and starts beating the other goblin over the head with it until it breaks in two, and then they start grappling. And I'm just standing there watching all this with my mouth hanging open, like what the flying duck, and then I go back inside. A few minutes later I come back out, and one goblin is dead, and the other is sitting there beside it and pulling keys off what's left of my keyboard, and eating them. Okay.
The Dillers walk by, holding the hand of their toddler grandson. He points to it gleefully. "Gobbin! Gobbin!" It spits out the backspace key.
Raining again. I go inside.