Mr Bobby Blue was a master toy maker and his daughter Little Cashi True Blue was the apple of her Papa’s eye.
Cashi Blue loves to play basketball and she also loves the color blue.
Not just any old shade of blue, but that of the beautiful blue of the sky.
Her basket ball shoes were very cool and everyone loved them, all except Cashi, because she dreamed of owning a pair made from the breathtaking blue of the sky above.
Every day she would ask her Poppa to make her some “sky blue magic shoes” but he could not reach the sky. Cashi was so sad and no other color could please her.
He bought her a pair of Elmo slippers which were very close to the cherished Blue-sky, but they were not suitable for playing basket ball.
He found some cool hightops but they still did not achieve either.
Eventually Mr Blue could no longer bear the pain of his little Cashi’s great sadness.
Late one night he made the biggest ladder the world has ever seen, and early the next morning he raised it to the sky and began the long accent.
When he reached the firmament, he took out a pair of scissors and cut out two pieces the size of two little shoes for his beloved Cashi.
The next morning she awoke to find a package tied with a sky blue ribbon at the foot of her bed and she jumped up to see what was inside.
Downstairs Bobby Blue was startled when he heard her jumping for joy and yelling “I got my blue sky shoes”, over and over again.
She came rushing downstairs wearing the brilliant blue shoes snd she seemed to float rather than walk or run. “I love my sky blue shoes Poppa, thank you forever and ever and ever”
She won every basketball game and no-one on God’s green earth could catch her or even keep up with her. She laughed and laughed and laughed and she played and played and played every day until the sun went down.
Cashi Blue awoke to greet the day, donning her sky blue magic shoes ran downstairs. When she reached the bottom a loud banging on the front door shook the house. Mr Blue came a-runnin to see what the noise was.
A squad of Grumbly men were outside wanting to get inside, “We are from the Squash Squad, and we are here to investigate the disappearance of two pieces of the sky, just enough to make a pair of shoes for little girl about the age of your daughter here” They all looked at Cashi’s sky blue magic shoes.
Bobby folded like an paper origami sculpture and confessed on the spot.
The shoes were confiscated and Bobby was severely reprimanded then the Grumbly men left.
Cashi Blue fell in to deep sadness again, she went up to her room and cried and cried until the Rain Drop Cops called and said “STOP CRYING RIGHT NOW.
The next morning there was an even louder knock on the front door and Mr Blue was ready to confess all over again,
It was not the Squash Squad this time, it was The Yoopish Delivery Truck and they left a package for Cashi Blue. Bobby Blue ran upstairs to show Cashi.
The shoes had been sent by a famous basketball player and her name was Lorna Lightening. Lorna had heard all about the story of the sky blue magic basketball shoes, So, she had a very special pair made from material that looked exactly like the sky, explain that?
Cashi was over the moon and she ran out in the world to play and play and play and play some more in her sky blue magic floating shoooeez.
The End.
Written by: Crazy Grandpa Al