Jimby
'Russ Berrie' Mason
E Mail
Jimby
It
is now 2025 and I am BACK after 17 years
Have
fun reliving the past.
I
am now a 24 year old Russ Berry Jimby living in England and
have many cousins all over the place who keep me up to date
with their fun and games.
My
Girl Friend Georgia Peach Jimby lives in Atlanta Georgia USA
and my learned friend James (but he prefers Jimby) Jimby is
in Cleveland Ohio but does travel around a fair bit. Others
are just as important and all are here to make you smile and
even laugh out loud at times.
I
realise I have several more friends since the start and have
mislaid you for now but hoping to have more pages and pictures
soon.
This
is how it all started
Early One Morning in Florida
Once again the sun came out and the owner opened the shutters
on the shop front. Here we go again I thought with another
boring day watching the shoppers look but never buying me.
Not that I am too worried because I want to go to a home that
is really a place to show off my talents.
Around lunchtime after being squeezed and shook but never
hugged a strange person picked me off the shelf and looked
me straight in the eyes. At last someone almost understood
what I wanted. He looked at my price tag and smiled and I
could almost hear his brain ticking. I was willing him to
take me to the counter but instead he hid me behind his back
and approached a lady looking at the other toys.
Suddenly I was looking over this ladies shoulder into her
eyes and she burst out laughing and even asked who I was.
Great at last I was on my way! However she went to look at
my price tag and my heart sank until the man said I was only
$8.99 instead of $18.99. Strange I thought I am worth the
full price but had missed the human's intention. He said he
only had that much and could he buy me. I just prayed she
said yes for I was already thinking of being in a proper home
with my own room and freedom.
The owner looked a little sad when I was taken by a smiling
couple to be paid for. Funny that the man asked the lady to
see if she could find anything else whilst he took his wallet
out and paid the full price!!
Now I panicked, what was the world like outside the shop?
I realised I had never been past the shelf let alone the door
even if I was in a bag. What a surprise for outside the door
were hundreds of other shops in long rows with so many people
walking about. Then I was taken out of the bag and shown the
real world.
I was turned upside down and heard I was called Jimby on
a tag. Also that the man was Mick and his lady was Ann. I
decided there and then to call them Mr Mick and Miss Ann.
We sat down together and they gave me a hug and started to
tell me that I was going to live in England wherever that
might be. I did know I was in Florida and the shops were called
The Eagle Ridge Mall. This was getting so exciting and as
we got up I insisted in being carried and able to see where
we were going. It was important I started to show them what
I wanted which might not always be the same as them.
Soon I was sitting on a shelf again but this time the back
one in a car zooming along the highways. I looked at the people
in other cars and waved to them, some even waved back and
all the children were pointing and laughing. This was fun
with a capital F.
It turned out my new owners lived in a little town in England
and the next day I would be flying in an aeroplane to start
my new life. My hopes of looking out of a window were dashed
when the next morning I was put with lots of other things
and locked inside a suitcase.
Lucky for me I managed to get snuggled in the middle of some
soft clothes and despite a few knocks and bumps managed to
get some sleep. Just where would I wake up and what would
it be like?
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