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The Magic Pony Story Hour
I went into Malaysia last night because my wife didn’t like any of the wedding suits at our bridal studio and we’re now trying to rent one from another establishment. She most definitely wants me to wear a silver/white 3-piece suit. Amazingly most bridal studios don’t give a flying pony about the groom. We went to 3 studios and they all had a limited range of suits. Their suits either look like business suit (I also got) or make one look like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
Later, we were stuck in a massive traffic jam and my 5 year old niece started making a fuss because she was sleepy. I had a rather bad headache so I decided to tell her a story in an attempt to keep her silent. Here is the story I made up on the spot (translated from mangled mandarin) while trying to navigate traffic.
Once upon a time, there was a little princess who loved to scratch herself like a monkey. Her father, the king told her “Daughter, if you keep doing that then one day you will become a monkey”. And the little princess thought to herself that that may be a good thing because she was sick of being locked up inside the castle.
An ape appeared at her window that night and whispered into her ear “If you would like to roam free in the forest, then switch places with me”. The little princess who did not know any better said to him “Oh how wonderful, I would like that very much please”.
So the ape took the form of the princess and the princess transformed into the shape of an ape.
After 5 days of playing in the forest, the princess grew weary of being an ape. She saw her reflection in the waters of the river and realized she was a dirty hairy ape, and began crying.
She went back to the castle and pleaded with the false princess-ape to switch places again, but the false princess-ape laughed and said now it did not want to become an ape again. After all, being a princess meant having all the food you could eat and pretty dresses.
So the true princess fled to the forest and sat on a grassy mound to cry herself blind. After awhile, the lord of the forest, King Kong came along and asked her what was wrong. When the true princess explained what had happened, King Kong demanded proof that she was a true princess and not just some deluded schizo ape.
“Only a true princess, can sing the most amazing song ever heard so sing for me” said King Kong.
And so the true princess began to sing. She sang a song so sad, it began to snow. And then her song changed and became frightening that thunder and lightning flashed in the sky. Finally her song became happy and full of hope, and flowers began to bloom.
At this point, she had already fallen asleep. Thank goodness, because I was running out of ideas.
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