in California
February 22nd, 2007
WHATS UNDER YOUR BED? (Part 1)
"DANG!" I yelled as I accidently threw my sock underneath my bed in one of my touchdown imitations. I jumped off my bed and looked under. Billions of dust bunnies, unfinished homework, and old toys created piles of trash. I started to crawl underneath.
I was still crawling when I heard a zap and a voice. "IT WORKS! WE SHALL NOT BE DISTURBED ANYMORE BY THE LONG LEGS!!!" that sounded like a mad scientist. Suddenly my body felt all light and suddenly I was the size of a tiny dust bunny!
"Hey man, this not cool" I said worriedly.
"Well it is cool for us! You see, whenever you come underneath this bed to fetch this stupid remote, you crawl over cities, kick mobs and busses, and cause huge mayhem, but now you can't do that anymore!!!"
"For crying out loud! Just enlarge me so I can get my remote!!!" I yelled.
"Can't do that,"
"WHY NOT!"
"I can't do that until you sign this contract to be more respectful of us, and to stay three days here to know what it is like to live under a bed."
"Fine, but after that can you enlarge me?"
"Ya, okay sure. Oh and I recommend you take one of these" The oddly shaped dust bunny that shrunk me gave me a brochure. I opened it. Inside was a map, a few tips on how to make money, two buttons, a list of hotels, and a yellow page list. I looked at the map. It read that a telephone booth was nearby. I followed the maps directions and ran there.
On my jog I noticed that the houses were made entirely of lint. The public transportation was a paper airplane launched by a slingshot. The private transportation was a oragami car. I finally reached the phone booth. The phone was made of cardboard scraps and there was a slot that said insert one chocolate wrapper. All I had were two buttons. I wondered how much they were worth. I saw a change maker nearby. I inserted both of my buttons and the machine wirred for a while. Then twelve chocolate wrappers came out. I inserted two and I dialed a hotel number stated on my brochure.
I held the phone up to my ear and immediatly a fast talking guy said, "Monty's hotel service! If we can't use buttons nobody can! How may I help you?"
"Errr-Hi" I didn't know what to say. I'm not an adult. I quickly recalled how my parents talk on the phone when they try to order something. "May I-no umm errr I would like a room for three nights please."
"Ok! Lets see three nights.... uhhh.... thats a total of sixteen buttons, but we're having a huge discount so with dirt it's a total of.... nine buttons!" Nine buttons!!! I was starting to understand dust currency and ten chocolate wrappers was only a little bigger then one button!!! Somehow I had to make the money!!! I really didn't want to sleep on dirt for three days!!! And I noticed all the sleeping bags are made out of lint.
"Is it O.K if I pay at the front desk?"
"Certainly, we will reserve a room for you!" I hung up the phone. Somehow I was going to have to make fourty-four chocolate wrappers in another eight hours!!! Wait that's immpossible, maybe if I didn't sleep for one night. Then I would have more time to make money and I wouldn't have to pay for one night. I started to walk away from the payphone thinking on ideas for how to make money.
TO BE CONTINUED......
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