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The sun was shinning brightly over Cleavestown which meant that Reg had the chance to wear his specially made sunglasses.
Mr Arnold made them for Reg, when he gave them to him he said, "These are special sunglasses for a special friend."
Nobody had ever called Reg a special friend before.
Reg was pleased that Mr Arnold did, as Reg liked him very much.
Mr Arnold had made them for Reg as a thank you present for helping him out with a sticky job he had to do and without Reg's help he would never have managed to do it.
Let me tell tell you all about the help that Reg gave Mr Arnold then you can see for yourself what a special friend he is.
It all started with a 'Crash!' and a 'Bang!' followed by Mrs Arnold shouting out, "Oh Dear! what was that terrible noise?"
Mr Arnold said, "Don't you worry dear I will go and see what it is."
When Mr Arnold went to see what all the noise was about he could hardly believe his eyes.
Tiger the cat from next door had somehow managed to get into Mr Arnold's garage and had knocked over from one of the top shelves, a large pot of sticky glue.
"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear" said Mr Arnold, "What a mess you have made in here little chap eh?"
Tiger looked at Mr Arnold with what looked like a (I am sorry look) on his face, then scampered out of the garage door.
Mr Arnold saw the funny side of what had happened, what with Tiger looking so shocked and the trail of sticky paw prints that remained on the floor.
The garage was covered in glue, it was all over the place;
there was glue and sticky paw prints on Mr Arnold's car, glue all over the floor, last but not least there was glue all over poor Tiger.
I bet that will teach him not to go searching around in Mr Arnold's garage again.
"I suppose I will have to clean all this sticky glue up then" said Mr Arnold to himself, "I could have done without all of this."
Reg was scooting along the road saying "Hello" and "Good morning" to everyone he saw and when he came to Mr Arnold house he was amazed at what he saw.
Mr Arnold was walking around with half the contents of his garage stuck to him.
There were old cups and bits of paper stuck to his legs, bits of wood stuck to his arm and the funniest thing Reg had ever saw in his life was the old plastic lilo which appeared to be pulling him backwards towards the garage.
"Goodmorning Mr Arnold" said Reg cheerfully, "You look like you could do with a bit of help."
"Oh I am glad to see you Reg," said Mr Arnold, "We have had a little accident here and I think that you are the only one who could possibly help me to get out of this sticky mess, I had better tell you what happened."
Mr Arnold told Reg about Tiger, the sorry look, the sticky paw prints all over the garage then he said, "To make matters worse, I cannot start to clean my garage until I move my car out of it but it has been stuck down with all that glue."
After hearing this Reg rolled around and around laughing with great delight.
"Do you think that you are strong enough to lift my car out of the glue Reg?" said Mr Arnold.
"I am not sure" said Reg, "But I will try to do it."
Reg rolled towards the car and lowered his forks, he gently slid them underneath the car.
"Thats the way Reg," said Mr Arnold, "Gently now."
Reg lifted the car as gently as he could, slowly it moved up towards the roof.
"Hold it there Reg!" shouted Mr Arnold, "You are nearly hitting the roof."
Reg looked up and he could see that Mr Arnold was right, the car was almost hitting the roof.
"Oops sorry" said Reg, "The sun is in my eyes which is making it difficult to see."
Reg lowered the car a little bit then reversed out of the garage.
When the car was out of the garage Reg lowered his forks and the car came gently down, once again it stood on solid ground.
Reg gave a huge sigh of relief, he was thankful that the job was over with.
Mr Arnold said, "Thank you ever so much Reg, I knew that you would help me and I also knew that you would be strong enough to lift my car out of that sticky glue."
Reg had a huge smile on his face when he said, "That is all right Mr Arnold, I would do anything for a friend, especialy someone like you who I like very much."
Mr Arnold gave Reg a warm smile and the next thing he said made Reg very curious.
Mr Arnold said, "Talking about doing things for a friend, I have been doing something for you for the past couple of days and I am pleased to say that it is finnished."
"Why don't you wait there for a minute while I go and fetch it for you Reg?"
"What do you mean?" said Reg.
"As I said Reg, wait there and I will be back soon." said Mr Arnold.
With that said Mr Arnold went to his shed to retrieve whatever it was, leaving Reg waiting and wondering about what it could be.
Reg was thinking about all sorts of things but eventually realized that he would never guess what it was, so decided to put it out of his mind and just wait and see.
After a short while Mr Arnold came back with something that Reg thought that he would never have.
"How did you manage to make them?" said Reg.
"I can manage anything for a friend" said Mr Arnold as he gently put the huge sunglasses over Reg's carriage so that they covered his eyes.
Mr Arnold stepped back a bit to have a good look at them then said, "They look great Reg."
"Oh thanks Mr Arnold, Thanks a lot" said Reg, "You are truly a good friend."
"And you are the most helpful forklift that I have ever known" said Mr Arnold, "And without your help I would have been well and truly STUCK!"
With the mention of the word stuck, Reg and Mr Arnold laughed and laughed for quite a while.
John Mcleod
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