Once Upon a Cowboy (28 page)

Wacky comes naturally to Day Leclaire. It always has.

At the age of five, she taught her kindergarten class how to lock the bathroom stalls and slide out underneath. Then she became the first kindergartner in the school's history to get suspended, after starting a glue war to the tune of one carpet, ten emergency haircuts, fifteen shirts, three pants, and two pairs of sneakers. Or was that three pairs of sneakers?

Anyway, 10 years later, Day conjured the bright idea of using her father's street motorcycle like a dirtbike and crashed it while attempting a spectacular jump over two logs, a lawn chair, her brother, and the family St. Bernard. Brutus survived. Her brother still has nightmares. The motorcycle was DOA. Day, (only slightly bent, spindled, and mutilated) spent most of that year grounded.

Then she earned her driver’s license and wrecked the family car. More than once. Her parents were not amused. The insurance adjuster, however, was. Eventually, he started answering the phone, "So, what's she done now?"

Nowadays, when Day isn't wondering if her driving record was the impetus for the "Mayhem" commercials, she's loving her SPCA fosters dogs and playing The Sims 3 obsessively.
 

Day also writes with equal abandon, playing god with the fabulous characters and settings she creates—all within the confines of her computer world, of course. Or so she claims...

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