The Brain Drain
January 12, 2011
The City of New York was having its weekly reunion with its bodily parts. From Liver to Arms and from Head and Eyes, they were all gathered to discuss the coming week’s most important issues.
Veins was the first to jump in into the scene. He raised the continuing traffic issue and clogging of its venues which were a direct result of the rapid increase of new fat arrivals and intense incentives to attract cholesterols. The notion was backed by many of the present delegates and agreed that mouth had to be more precarious in what went in. So new regulations were to be proposed, something Cells were desperately in need since they complained much about the increase presence of foreign cells.
Not only did Cells backed the motion but was pushing to create immediate regulations, which as some present observers may recall: were hesitant and premature. Soon the discussion heated and the proposals turned into a debate, which later transformed into chaos. Everyone was out-of-order but eyes, which having no actual voice was observant of the situation. Eyes noticed that someone was missing, someone who usually brought order and sense, someone everyone else listened, specially Ears, that someone who was absent that day was Brain.
It was then that Nose smelled Eyes unrests and in less than a minute everyone turned to Eyes and understood that Brain was somewhere else. They all looked at each other in total perplexity. Why was Brain not here? Had he not received the memo?
And so they went out into the corridor and searched in the nearby rooms, probably he was lost somewhere around the huge Art Deco building. But nothing. Time was ticking and most of the delegates had to resume their functions and could not waste any time.
After few minutes of fruitless effort to find Brain, everyone decided to go back to work.
And so it happened that day, like many other days in the body of New York that not much progress was made.
Later that day as Eyes was closing the register books, he saw noticed a strange transaction.
It appeared to be that someone was using the Body’s Credit Card in London’s Gentlemen Club.
The event was not an isolated one, for we learned few weeks later that Tokyo, London and Paris were having similar issues with their Brains.
