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A GOOD ONE. The night before his flight to New York, Gershon’s wife had a dream

SO REAL

The night before his flight to New York, Gershon’s wife had a dream. “It was so real,” she told him as he packed. “The curbs were red and white and the electric poles had those apartments-for-sale ads posted on them—you know? The kind with those tabs you can pull off, just like in real life. There was even a man scooping his dog’s shit off the sidewalk with a piece of newspaper. It was all so ordinary, so everyday.” Gershon was attempting to cram more and more clothing and brochures into his small suitcase. His wife usually helped him pack, but this morning she was so engrossed in this so-real, so-detailed dream of hers that helping hadn’t even occurred to her. The dream itself probably hadn’t lasted more than ten seconds in the real world, but the way she managed to drag it out was making Gershon so angry that he was on the verge of tears. In three hours’ time he’d be on a plane to New York, on his way to meet the largest toy manufacturer in the world, and when we say largest in the world, that’s not just another tired cliché, but a fact based on a large number of balance sheets and sales figures, and if Gershon played his cards right, that manufacturer might buy the Stop—Police board game Gershon had developed and turn it into no less than the twenty-first-century Monopoly. And while none of that is exactly a red-and-white curb or a piece of dog shit being picked up with a wrinkled financial supplement, the idea that such monumental success might be on the horizon is the kind of thing you’d like to see your wife react to with a little more enthusiasm. “ … And then my dad suddenly appears right in front of me with a baby carriage and says to me, ‘Watch her.’ Just like that. Leaves the carriage next to me and walks off like it’s the most natural thing in the world,” his wife continued as Gershon tried unsuccessfully to zip up his suitcase. “And the baby girl in the carriage looked so sad and alone, like an old woman, that I just wanted to take her in my arms and hug her. And it was all so real that when I woke up it took me a minute to figure out how I’d gone from the middle of the street to our bedroom. You know that feeling?”

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