For whatever reason, Dad had the television on and they were playing Disney’s The Fox and The Hound. It just was at the part where Todd and Copper have grown up and are seeing each other for the first time. Copper is now a hunting dog and his owner tries to shoot Todd. In order for Todd to have a safe life his owner drops him off at a nature preserve. He is a fox after all and he is supposed to live outside in nature, but because he has been inside his whole life he is not used to things and he really doesn’t have the skill set to take care of himself at first. His first night on his own it rains and he doesn’t have shelter. Luckily a porcupine takes him in, but not before he gets soaked and we have to see him cold and wet and suffering.
You walked by, and I asked you if you knew enough to get out of the rain, because I won’t be there to get you or tell you, and you reminded me that has already happened to you. You then recalled a time in middle school when you were at a game at the fields and it started to rain and everyone left, even the coaches, and they forgot to check if all the kids got picked up.
I have been sad all day and torturing myself with images of you crying in the rain, but as I started to write I remembered two things. One, until you reminded me about the middle school thing, I had forgotten about it so I can admit that even though you were alone in the rain, it clearly didn’t upset me enough to dwell on it, and two, in The Fox and The Hound, Todd is only sad for the first night, as first thing in the morning he meets Vixey and they live happily ever after. (wink, wink)
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