Watching the Rain Fall

Once upon a time there was a simple little monkey who lived in a great jungle called the Toy Department in the great land of Fred Meyer’s. This little monkey played with the other toys and had no clue of the adventures that would soon face him. One day a blonde girl named Ashley came to the Toy Department and monkey left with her. He went to a land of scholarship with her and was delighted to spend the day swinging about on ropes as the students studied the centripetal motion of Monkey on the rope… this was how Monkey came to be known as Physics Monkey. But one day after swinging on his rope Monkey was taken by evil forces. Ashley was very sad and asked everyone where Monkey had gone. The next morning Ashley found a note in her bag demanding bananas as a ransom for Monkey’s freedom. She got out of the school past the Guard Dave to get the demanded bananas. Without being caught Ashley returned and left the bananas on the overhead in the room of physics. Minutes later the bananas were gone and no one had seen where they had gone. An hour later Ashley went into the office of the sweet fairy Zimm to ask Zimm about the Physics lesson for that day and Ashley found a paper bag filled with Banana peels. On the bag was a note demanding orange candy. That evening Ashley and her friend Inna went to Mr. Winco and bought some candy… lots of orange candy. The next day the candy was placed in the same spot as the bananas were. Like the day before the candy disappeared within moments. A few moments later Ashley was outside launching a rocket to space when she realized every other student was eating candy… orange candy! She asked everyone who had given them the candy but as they had all been bribed none of them said a word.

Time passed and Monkey was not returned or seen and Ashley feared his seams ripped…

One day when the flowers were blooming Ashley and Inna were driving in the car and Ashley mentioned with longing her friend Monkey and told Inna of the void that was in her life without the fuzzy little Monkey. Inna hearing Ashley’s tale of woe softened and told Ashley what had happened to Monkey…

All those months before Inna had taken Monkey with the intention of playing with him. But after while he got hungry. So Inna wrote a note to Ashley asking for Bananas. Then the other students demanded that they be given orange candy or else they would tell Ashley that Inna was playing with Monkey and she liked Monkey so much she didn’t want to give him up. So she asked Ashley for orange candy and gave it to the other students as demanded. But one student wasn’t happy with his candy and he took Monkey from Inna. While Inna had been nice to Monkey, Tyler shoved monkey in a closet with old soccer gear and gave Monkey no bananas.

After confessing all this to Ashley, Inna and Ashley began to plan to rescue monkey. First they left notes in Tyler’s bag, limericks and other tales of Monkey’s sad captivity. Then they left banana peels and post its all over Tyler’s car. Then finally after warning Tyler the pair ran into Tyler’s house. They were ninjas dressed from head to toe in black (even if part of that included black skirts and leggings). They ran up the stairs and dove under the bed where Monkey had hidden and rescued the little primate.

Monkey was delighted to be rescued and lived out the rest of his days with Ashley…

But Monkey’s excitement was not yet over. One day Ashley was accepted to University. She traveled south to study in a land of cows and football. Monkey and a nice brown bear named Cookie came with Ashley. In the middle of that year Ashley was accepted to go to another University in England for a year. This was a long long ways a way and Cookie decided to stay. But Monkey could not refuse the opportunity and came with Ashley to England. He travelled all over England having his picture taken everywhere he went.

This year in England wet Monkey’s appetite for travel and he soon began to travel around the world… and he was known as The Traveling Monkey!