monkeys
I like monkeys. The pet store was
selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally
a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought
200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a
big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none
of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I
laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They
didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl
themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although
humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all
the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all
just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five
hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were
200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging
from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet.
It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry
monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just
stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose.
It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead
monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition
by freezing them. Unfortunately, there was only enough room for two monkeys at a
time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in
the freezer so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I
know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my
toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in
a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to
dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my
monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them away but the
garbage man said that the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I
told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother
asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I
gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They
pretended that they liked them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I
punched them in the genitals.
I like monkeys.