Katie's Halloween Dad.

Hello, this is Natasha, and I'm here with a Katie story for Halloween.

If you have been following Katie's stories, you will know that her dad is a professor of extra sensory perception and paranormal phenomena.

In other words, he works at the university and studies all sorts of spooky stuff.

Wow, you've got to admit that's quite a cool job.

He doesn't live with Katie and her mum anymore, but Katie does like to go and see him sometimes.

Katie's dad owns a fancy sort of car and likes to drive it rather too fast.

In fact, Katie's mum used to say that it was surprising that he hadn't been banned from driving altogether.

Well, one day he was racing around the bypass when he saw a blue light flashing in his mirror.

He had to pull over for a police car. The officers had filmed him

driving at 70 miles an hour in a 40 mile per hour zone while holding an electric shaver in his left

hand and running it over his chin. When he spoke to the two police women, he came across as a bit

rude and arrogant and they threw the book at women, he came across as a bit rude and arrogant, and they threw

the book at him, not just for speeding, but for dangerous driving too. Katie's dad soon began

to worry that he might lose his driving licence. He went to see an expensive lawyer called Mr.

Loophole, but even he said that he couldn't get him off the hook.

Later that day, he stood at the window of his laboratory and ran his eyes over the elegant

curves of his automobile. How I love her, he thought to himself. He meant his car, of course.

And then a voice in his head said, you know, there's one

person who could get you out of this fix with a snap of her fingers. And he replied to the voice.

Yes, but there's no way I'm calling her and begging for help. But when his day in court was just a week away,

he swallowed his pride and called her.

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