Story #24
From Story #3
Choosing "The nearest bathroom"
By Saki and Elena Halfelven


It's not that you like outhouses or anything, but you're desperate to escape these people, and besides, you've gotta go. Under this wonderful reasoning, you prance off to look for the nearest bathroom.

Your prancing does not go unnoticed. Some group of theives figure there must be some reason you're so happy; so they mug you and leave you on the side of the street. This is not the best outcome; certainly not what you were hoping for. They haven't stolen much-just the paper bag that you'd woken up clutching, but you loved that paper bag, so you take off running after the thieves, waving your hands and screaming.

Frightened of drawing attention to themselves, or perhaps just frightened of you, they drop the paper bag and run. You scoop up the paper bag into your arms, and, still running, begin searching for the nearest bathroom once again.

After finding (and using) the nearest bathroom, it finally occurs to you to look inside the paper bag. You'd figured it would be lunch or something, but, no......

Slowly, carefully, you open the bag and peer inside. What you see fills your entire tiny head with surprise and wonder.

"It's...it's...it's a FROG!!!!!" you exclaim gleefully. Indeed, there is a kawaii little tree frog inside of your beloved bag. The frog is sitting atop a million dollar ruby, but hey, who cares about that? The frog is cute!

Just then, someone comes up to you and asks, "Whats in the bag?"

You say:

(Defencively) "A whole lot of nothing!"

"A really cute frog! Oh, and a ruby worth a lot of money."

"MINE!!!!!! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!!!!!"