Soozy may be considered slow by most, but she preferred

oozing her way through life, because truthfully she had no

other choice - or so she thought. What others didn’t realize

 is that there are great advantages in taking time to stop and 

examine cool things along one’s journey.

Highly educated on many subjects, Soozy learned to use her 

sense of telepathy and sign language to communicate with 

others since she lacked ears. Not to mention her poor vision 

forced her to wear thick glasses – but she could care less 

about glamour and believed glasses made her appear 

smarter.

Sliming around at dusk when the weather is a bit 

cooler, Soozy welcomed drizzly rainy days to keep her 

body soft and moist.  

As an herbivore, she does not eat meat preferring to 

dine on flowers and leaves. Her special diet also doesn’t 

allow her to consume salt or sugar and she must eat 

calcium supplements to keep her shell hard.  

She fancies herb gardens and entertaining tea parties 

while chatting about her dreams of visiting the 

rain forests of Costa Rica in Central America one day.

It takes Soozy a good 3 minutes to travel 2 feet leaving a 

slime trail all around the garden. She studied how may feet 

she moves every hour. 

She learned there are 60 minutes in an hour… and divided that 

by 3 minutes equaling 20 minutes. Moving 2 feet in 20 minutes 

(2 ft x 20 min) would be 40 feet in one hour! Therefore, if she 

slimes 8 hours a day, 40 feet x 8 hours that’s about 320 feet 

each day usually making it half way around the garden. 

Today Soozy spotted Anna and Aaron ants skipping past her 

on an adventure. She oozed past Lana the beautiful ladybug 

and admired her uniform red dress with black polka dots. 

Noticing Lana preferred to munch on the sweet delicious pink 

hibiscus flowers Soozy sampled them and deemed they tasted 

like cotton candy - the aphid bugs were like sprinkles on top!    

Two other lovely ladybugs Linda and a Lidia were enjoying an 

herbal tea party inviting Soozy to join them. She graciously 

waved her tentacle to decline because it was going to take her 

half the day just to get half way to her destination, the 

Gardenia Bush Lounge.

Leaving behind a silvery track, Soozy continued up the 

walkway passing fuzzy Bailee bee whose preference is the 

exquisite yellow flowers she supposed because they tasted 

like butterscotch. 

Bailee is all about the “bees-knees” of making honey. Boy 

bees Bobby, Benny, Brian, Billy, Brody and Booger buzzed 

around the daffodils…while the lady bees Barbie, Becky, 

Bonnie, Betty, Bella and Britty favored the jasmine flower 

bushes.

Once in a while Soozy catches a glimpse of Hugo the 

hummingbird who flies in all the way in from Brazil.  

Wicked fast, flitting from flower to flower, Hugo sips 

the syrupy nectar making her dizzy just watching him.

In Hugo’s Spanish accent he said, “Sussee, deez leelees

 ar so deeleeshus, you chood try som tiiiimes, jes?” But 

before Soozy can use her sign language Hugo was already 

whizzing off to some other flower patch…

Cautious when near Mr. Blake the snake is near; his 

presence gives her the ebbie jeebies. He’s been 

around a long time and usually is in a grumpy mood 

from being chased out of the yard so many times. 

Ricky raccoon is what Soozy calls an optimist because 

he is always being hounded by a dog but never lets 

this get him down. His positive philosophy is “Always 

be kinder than necessary.”  Mr. Blake, the pessimist 

would stick out his tongue out you and say, 

“Psssssssst to that,” then slither off into the garden.

Gordon the garden frog is the most charming and 

handsome of them all.  Soozy can feel his vibrations 

when he says, “Riiiibbbbiiiiit Riiiiibbiiiiiit”…making her 

tentacles quiver. 

One time he hopped up to her and vibed his “Ribbit 

Ribbit,” with a twinkle in his eye, and it gave her the 

goose-bumps! (Yes, snails can get goose-bumps!) 

 It made her want to pop out of her shell.

Staying out late in the full moon light while 

gazing up at the stars through her thick glasses, 

Soozy felt minuscule in this ginormous world.

She imagines being a world famous Astrologer 

studying the cosmos and learning about every 

planet and how vast the universe really is.

Some would call her a bookworm, but she’s like,

“HELLO, I’m a snail, not a worm!”

After a long day, Soozy curls up into her shell for 

a snooze; slipping off into a wonderful dream state 

she fantasizes that one day she and Gordon get 

married in the flower garden and soon after spawn 

some frails and snogs (which is a cross between a 

frog and a snail or a snail and a frog.) 

She envisions herself sliming up on Gordon’s 

magnificent back as he carries her onto a sailboat 

out to the sea, while basking in the moonlight he 

croaks love songs to her all night long…

Soozy awoke with tremendous joy in her sincere little snail 

heart.  She couldn’t wait to get over to Gardenia Bush Lounge 

where she would absorb the appealing fragrance of gardenia 

flowers consuming its succulent leaves. 

Ugh, but it was going be an arduous quest; 

she dreaded dragging her body across the parched driveway 

with the risk of being stepped on and squished…she truly 

wished there was an easier way to travel.