Two Little Guys Create One Gigantic Problem
Hey, friends new & old! Are we happy to see you! Well, we actually can’t see you, but you can see us. More importantly, you can see what happened at our house and clear our good name. Certain friends here are blaming us entirely for what happened. They claim that our so-called-machine is what started it all. And if it hadn’t been here, we wouldn’t be in this mess. We claim that it’s not our fault that… well, see what you think. We’re interested to hear from you- our fabulous, intelligent, kind, fair readers. (if you really are all of those things, you’ll notice we are not to blame for this problem. Someone else is.)
We have the wonderful idea of breaking out our cloning machine to create more and more (and more) chocolate chips. And if this works? An endless supply of chocolate would simply be the bestest thing to happen to us in a long time. (No offense, Katie. You’re nice to us and all, but chocolate??!)
Our friend Yeti arrived on the scene in time to see how our experiment turned out.
“Hey, Little Guy and Little Guy 2! What’s going on? Oh, you’ve got a cloning machine! And it turned one chocolate chip into that big pile? That’s amazing!!! Hold on, I’ll be right back!” -Yeti
Yeti brings a pile of coins she wants to try out in the machine. We agree, because why not? We’re good friends and like to help out (sometimes). Besides, all that cash could come in handy for buying more cookies. And brownies. And chocolate things of all shapes & sizes. And she would owe us- without our machine, she’d have less money.
Our friend Sneaks (of coffee-stealing fame) shows up when he hears Yeti’s exclaims of delight.
“Hello, everyone! What’s new? You’re doing what?!!! No kidding! Well, I’m sort of on coffee probation right now because of my recent (ahem) situation. And I’d like to fix my lack-of-caffeine problem. Do you think you can help?” -Sneaks
Of course we can! If you can bring us one small amount of coffee, this machine can turn it into a pile of coffee, lickety-split. (LG & LG2)
Sneaks brings a packet of instant “expresso” to the machine. It fits quite nicely.
When the shouts of “WOOO-HOOOO!” reach Taco’s ears, he zips right in to investigate. And, of course, he leaves to get something. It seems like everyone wants to get in on the action!
Ummm. We didn’t think this was a good idea. At all. You know how dragons are about Tacos. And what happened recently with this very dragon. But it wouldn’t be fair to help some friends and not others.
At this point, Jicama and Fajita show up. Their timing couldn’t have been better. And, also, it was too little too late. See, you know how Fajita is very curious and asks a lot of questions? Well, they found this side of the box we’d never noticed. Oops.
Taco seemed completely unconcerned that we’d lost the manual and had no idea what it said. (If we read it, and I’m not saying we did or didn’t, it was a LONG time ago.) He was sure it wouldn’t matter that hot sauce is really spicy and may (or may not) be flammable. Others thought the fiery liquid in a cloning machine spelled disaster. After all, we’d only transformed solids to this point.
So, that sparked a debate amongst all of our friends. Some thought we should stop everything and look for it.* Some thought we should just go for it. After all, we’d already been using it and it’s clearly working perfectly. What’s a little hot sauce, anyway?** Some said that we should just keep cloning things we’d already cloned. Better safe than sorry***
*Jicama, Sunshine, and Wallace the Walrus
** Taco
***Yeti & Sneaks
The only thing we all agreed upon is that we’re not doing anything until most of us agree. Pretty sure we’ll be here all night. Maybe all week. Unless you can help?