"Cool Your Heels"

Here's Andrew's latest writing assignment. He had to pick an idiom and write a story that used it both literally and as an idiom.


“Cool Your Heels”

There was a scientist named Dr. Woggles. He made robots of all different kinds. His robots had controllers that made them walk and talk. They talk to each other unless they are turned off. They like to talk about science fiction and science non-fiction.

During that time, Dr. Woggles was making TXT4000, a very high-tech robot.

One night, TXT1000 woke up without being turned on. It turned on all the other robots, and they decided to have a journey. So, they went out of Dr. Woggle’s lab and into the night.

By morning, they were in the jungle and Dr. Woggles didn’t know where they were. During their journey, TXT500, a dumber robot, was going a little fast, so TXT2000 said, “Cool your heels!” and TXT500 jumped in a puddle and lost his technology.

About two weeks later, TXT4000 was done. Dr. Woggles let him outside and used his control to make a satellite wave that contacted the other robots.

They were so excited to go back that TXT2000 started running, so TXT3000 said, “Cool your heels!” and he stopped. When they got back, Dr. Woggles took TXT1000 and looked at his wires. One was loose, so he fixed it.