Chimpanzee

I made a new friend today. His name is “Ope” and he’s 3 years old. The first thing I notices, while playing with him, were his strong, extremely soft, clammy hands.

As a kid, when I was 3 or 4, during the viewing of "Toby Tyler" - a Disney movie - there was a chimpanzee in the movie named "Mr. Stubbs" that fell from a tree and kind of "dies" (it's a Disney movie after all) and I cried and cried. As a result, my dad and uncles nicknamed me "Mr. Stubbs. And I begged and begged my parents for a pet chimpanzee. They got me a collie instead, so I named him "Mr. Stubbs"!

I got to fulfill my childhood dream today, well not own a chimp, but I got to hang out and play with "Ope"!