6 JUST NOT FEELING IT

CHAPTER SIX JUST NOT FEELING IT Franny looked through her long list of projects. "Here's one that I wanted to get started on— inventing an ice cream that would never melt." Franny thought for a moment. "I must have been feeling pretty silly when I thought of that," she said. "Ice cream that never melts? Isn't that just a milkshake?" Without her silly side, Franny didn't feel like pursuing that one, and she crossed out the idea.

"Okay, let's have a look at the next one," she said, reading down her list. "A robot that finds your lost pet because it's so sad when somebody loses a pet. "I don't know. When I think about it now, that doesn't really seem that sad to me."

She looked out the window. "Look. There's that weird toad I created, hopping away, and I really don't care.

"I mean, most animals don't live in houses with people. What's the big deal if a few more leave home?" Without her feeling of sadness, the project just didn't seem very important to her, and she crossed it out.

She looked at the next project on her list. "Ah!" she said with a smile. "Now, this one should be good. It has a monster in it. I always enjoy making monsters." Her notes described making a giant, slobbery creature that would sit on the roof of your house. "Oh, yes, and it has slobber. This has real potential," Franny said.

She kept reading her notes. They said that if your house caught on fire, the monster would drool all over it and put out the fire. "I like the drooly part," Franny said, "but what does a house fire have to do with it?" She read the note she had written on the sketch. It said, FIRES ARE SCARY.