Exactly what you ordered

Terry created a key to change her husband’s personality. She thought she was doing the best for both of them, but it might open a mysterious door. Terry, are you going to spend another evening in this laborator? I think I am coming to the solution I have been looking for… I can’t stop now

I’m sorry George, but you know how important this is for me. Please, leave me alone. OK, I should have expected this when I married a psychiatrist. All right I’ll find a book to read. I believe, that’s it! This may help others as well as George, though I started this whole project just for him … Now I have to put it in action.

Terry discovered how to change her husband’s personality completely… All I need is a little more courage. This will certainly do the trick. And Terry goes on an errand… Here you are madam. Exactly what you ordered Very good! I expect to open a whole new future with this key!

Later at home … Listen to me carefully, dear… You see this key? It’s a symbol! A key to a new personality! With it you can improve our lives, if you want to … Carry a key? It sounds like a child’s game, but I’ll try it if you say so, Terry! The very next day there was a change in Terry … … and so, Mr. Dale, I’d like to have my salary raised! All right George … I think you’re right, I’d hate to lose the services of a great man like you.

With the key in his pocket, all things seemed to change for the better… How do you like it, dear? It has just arrived… Oh, it’s beautiful, George! Just think of all that has happened to us in the past few months! A new home, a new car… George, I’m so happy! It’s all your doing, dear! You and your key solution!

But one thing no one planned.. George couldn’t find the key … Now where did I put that key? Not in these pockets… Don’t tell me I lost it. Perhaps I left it home… But I know I didn’t. I don’t dare to tell Terry… I can get along without it… Perhaps I should review my experiment … Something seems to be going wrong… In the days that followed, Terry didn’t notice anything … She was wondering about something else …

And things were going wrong quickly … George, I am disappointed by you! I gave you more responsibility than you can carry… And I’ll have to change this! You mean … my job, Mr. Dale? I’ll walk through the museum … That always clears my mind … Meanwhile, Terry feels that she needs a change …

In the rooms full of art Terry tries to find out what caused the change in her husband… He´s getting more and more timid each day… That guide! He looks like George! And he speaks like him … His behaviour is like his! Amazing! Suddenly something horrible comes across Terry’s mind… Just step this way, friends …

Terry couldn’t tear herself away from the stranger who seemed to possess a replica personality of her husband … A personality she had created. I’ve got to talk to him! Now, while everybody’s gone… … The guide went to his locker… Terry was about to speak, but something she saw made her silent. The key! He’s got George’s key!

Terry stood back in the shadows until the man left, and then … I’ve got to get that key! It belongs to my husband! No wonder he reminded me of George. All the while he had the key to George’s personality right on him! Ahh, here it is!

But suddenly, a porter steps forward…And she did explain it… To a judge… Just a minute, young lady! I saw you take something from that locker! You’re not an employee here, are you? Why, no, I’m not, but I can explain! The lady has a receipt that shows that she bought the key, your honour. What kind of a key is it? It’s not real, your honour! It’s just a symbol! It’s the key to a new personality for my husband!

I created a new personality for him to give him the courage he doesn’t have, so he could get ahead in the world and we wouldn’t have to live such a boring life. It worked … until he lost the key! Real or fancy, you have no right to steal from a locker. But it was mine! I created it!

The lady is right, your honour… I found it, but I assure you it had no such powers as she says. It was simply a key! If you forgive her for going in your locker, young man … So will the court! Case dismissed! It’s all nonsense anyway! Now George will never listen to my advice again… Terry’s experiment with her personality key showed itself all too clearly to be a goolish failure… In shame, she headed home …

But oddly enough there was some magic to the key, after all… For the first time in years, George and Terry have a comple understanding… I was just ambitious! I wanted so much… And that’s certain unhappiness, honey! The key to life itself is recognizing who we are and what we have – and happiness there! Oh, George… And to think I wanted to change a fine man like you!