A gnome story

Just for fun

Eric the Gnome during happier times

Years ago, before we were about to depart for a European trip, I thought it would be fun to kidnap our friends' little garden gnome, and take him with us on our journey. I don't remember where we got the idea from, but a couple of days before we were to depart, I snatched him from their front porch, and put a note from "the kidnappers" in his place. 

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I had another email account that I had for marketing purposes, etc., so "Daryl Zero" became the go-between to send/receive kidnapping demands and update photos. And then the Facebook posts started.

Unfortunately, Christine caught a bad flu, so we didn't end up going on our 2-week trip, which meant I had time on my hands to act the part of the kindnapper, as well as have a little fun with it. So I created this from Brian's movie quote and the pic he attached to his post:

Now for those of you who aren't familiar with the "Missy the cat" internet story, you need to have a read. Missing Missy - https://27bslash6.com/missy.html. Go ahead. We'll wait. 

Welcome back. Hilarious, huh? Anyhow, since she asked, I came up with this:

And the FB posts continued.

I figured it was time to get some demands going, so I used the old newspaper-date trick to send proof-of-life and of course, a ransom request.

Which got an immediate response, of course.

Not wanting to seem like we were not participating, I upped the "Missing Missy" poster game.

And then this, from Brian, with a request for another movie poster:

But I figured we needed to take this story down a new angle, as it seemed that the Peers weren't about to cough up the Aeroplan points. So I sent this:

And then to my surprise, Heather posted this update:

Of course, I knew this not to be true, so I sent another photo of the little gnome, trying to find his way home, which prompted a new post.

And more from Eric...

However, every story has to have a happy ending, and the little gnome eventually found his way home.

But was this the last of Eric's journeys?