You arrive a few miles from your hometown at a Scrooge Bank branch. It’s Christmas Eve and it’s snowing pretty hard. The bank is closed, but you bet there’s more than a few stockings’ worth of cash inside. You use your animal communication abilities to call out to local squirrels to help you break inside, but they’re freezing their nuts off in surrounding trees. No animals answer your request for burglary assistance. The animal kingdom is surprisingly moral.

Try as you might, you can’t break into the bank. But you still have plenty of time to get home for Christmas with your family. While stolen money and jewels would’ve been a nice surprise gift, being able to tell the family cat to stop peeing on the sofa is truly the greatest gift of all.

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