To get noticed , he needed to win the Cup . He thought longingly of the empty pitch . It was practically unnatural for no one to be practicing when it was available .

A: How could winning the cup get him noticed .

( BTW , my thumb looks all retarded because I was trying to explain to the photographer how to take a picture with my cellphone ... she figured it out before I completed my demonstration . ) The two flags of Scotland ( the red and yellow Lion Rampant is generally only used when the Queen is staying in Scotland , although it 's considered sort of an unofficial second national flag . ) The other is the Saltire ( or St. Andrew 's Cross . )

A: Why is the narrator so serious about the photograph ?

I was talking to a friend yesterday about writing . He said he can only write when he is miserable . And though writing helps him to get his thoughts out of his head and work through his feelings , the misery pulls him in and it 's hard for him to get out . It 's hard for him to get out of that fake reality that the misery creates .

A: How did I respond to what my friend said ?

We were afraid it had rabies and called the police . It seemed like the right thing to do at the time . I do n't remember if it had rabies or not , but it was a small town , the kind of place where police were used to calls like that . Why i remembered : it was walking strangely .

A:
What was it they feared was infected with rabies ?