"I'll show ya after breakfast, Bryan. I bet Jay will be hungry as a horse," Simon joked.
"Ha ha! You say that same lame joke every day, Simon. With my big ears, you think I can't hear you?" Jay shouts from the bathroom.
Simon blushes. He wonders what other animal abilities he's given his friend. Simon walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge. It's empty.
Bryan shouts from the living room, "You really didn't expect to find any food in there this morning did you?"
"Yeah!" bellowed Jay from the shower, "You know I do eat like a horse? Hahahah!" Jay brayed a true donkey laugh over the roar of the shower.
Simon shrugged and walked back into the living room. Bryan was sitting on the couch holding the Chronivac. Simon opened his mouth to say something but his jaw dropped as Jay who'd turned off the shower re-entered the room.
Jay seemed hairier and more muscled than before. Simon looked up into Jay's eyes, the guy's mohawk like head mane brushed the 8 foot ceiling. Jay's ears lay folded back as he finished drying himself.
Bryan looked up and grinned while clutching the Chronivac.
"So guys ready to go to work?" Jay asked.
"Yeah," Simon said softly. He watched as Bryan slipped the Chronivac into his back pack and hefted it over his right shoulder.
"Lead on, Donkman," Bryan said.
Simon balked as Jay opened the front door and started to walk out into the world stark naked.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Simon asked.
"Oh, yeah, thanks, Sy," Jay said stepping back into the room. He reached behind the door and pulled an elaborate leather harness off the rack on the back of the door. Jay raised his right hoof and stepped into the harness, then followed suit with the rear hoof. He pulled the rest of the harness over his head and neck and fastened the straps across his chest. Then he trotted out the door with Simon and Bryan in hot pursuit.
He opened the garage door, and where his red mustang convertible had been now there was a fiberglass red surrey with large rubber wheels and a black leather cab roof foled back. Instantly, Jay began strapping himself to the surrey. "Well, get in we don't want to be late do we?" Jay asked.
Bryan and Simon climbed into the upholstered surrey, and immediately Jay started running. The two were thrust back into their cushioned seats as Jay hit the highway and began trotting at about 30 mph. In about 10 minutes, they were at the park. A large sign proclaimed donkman rides $5/quarter hour.
"So you pull people around the park?" Simon laughed.
"Hey, it's better than your shitty job," Jay called over his shoulder.
Simon paused. He remembered that Jay used to work as a waiter at a restaurant and had gotten Simon his job there. But in this new reality, Jay had never worked at the restaurant.