The Turtles' Picnic
Three turtles, Joe, Steve, and Pancho, decide to go on a picnic. So, Joe packs the picnic basket with cookies, bottled sodas, and sandwiches. The trouble is, the picnic site is, 10 miles away, so the turtles take 10 whole days to get there. By the time they do arrive, everyone's beat. Joe takes the stuff out of the basket, one by one. He takes out the sodas and says,
"Alright, Steve, gimme the bottle opener.''
"I didn't bring the bottle opener," Steve says.
"I thought you packed it."
Joe gets worried. He turns to Pancho.
"Pancho, do you have the bottle opener?"
Naturally, Pancho doesn't have it, so the turtles are stuck ten miles away from home without soda. Joe & Steve beg Pancho to turn back home and retrieve it, but Pancho flatly refuses, knowing that they'll eat everything by the time he gets back. Somehow, after about two hours, the turtles manage to convince Pancho to go, swearing on their great-grand turtles' graves that they won't touch the food. So, Pancho sets off down the road, slow and steadily. Twenty days pass, but no Pancho. Joe and Steve are hungry and puzzled, but a promise is a promise. Another day passes, and still no Pancho, but a promise is a promise. After three more days pass without Pancho in sight, Steve starts getting restless.
"I NEED FOOD!" he says with a hint of dementia in his voice.
"NO!" Joe retorts. "'We promised."
Five more days pass. Joe realizes that Pancho probably skipped out to the Burger King down the road, so the two turtles weakly lift the lid, get a sandwich, and open their mouths to eat. But then, right at that instant, Pancho pops out behind a rock, and says,
"Just for that, I'm not going."
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