Settling into bed for their first night together as a parental unit, Gwyneth consulted with the Well-Dressed Albatross.
Pim Comic Strip
How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
Ukifune always did well with cookie sales in high-rise apartments. Tonight, during a well-earned break on the roof of the building she’d been working in, she was able to snatch a few moments to ruminate on what lay ahead.
Just to be clear: Gwyneth was now living with Ukifune, Pim, Bim, Slim, the WDA and Clive (on the roof and with his nightly Zumba exercises). The sextet was less help for quotidian tasks than hoped for. (Economists call this the law of diminishing marginal returns.)
So, the five arrived at Gwyneth’s door at the same moment, invited themselves in, and explained the plan. Only Ukifune was absent, as she was out selling cookies.
While sauntering along Calle Galileo and analyzing how his calculations had gone wrong, Clive saw two of his travel companions with the WDA and Slim. Wisps of a theory that they were in conspiracy against him gathered in the more suspicious recesses of Clive’s mind.
Clive, while running elaborate calcutions of a reduced fare for fewer passengers, overlooked the fact that by expelling all of his companions at various intervals, it was incumbent upon Clive alone to pay the entire bill.
The upshot was that, accompanied by Pim, Bim and Slim, the WDA proceeded to Joachín’s haberdashery to offer his services as a male parental figure for Ukifune.
Surely life is neither more, nor less, than the sum of its approaches. E.g. Slim had been approaching our group for some time now, listening carefully as he did so. Slim’s face came abruptly up against the face of the WDA at the decisive moment.
Reacting to an approaching pesero that he noticed only in the final seconds of his approach, the WDA swerved and made a very hard landing indeed.
Shortly after depositing Ukifune on the Calle Galileo, Clive found himself growing tired of Pim and Bim. And so he thrust them from cab in the very location where the Well-Dressed Albatross was about to land. I think you’ll agree that the WDA made good time.
