Thursday, November 16, 2006
Happy Blogday to Me and Monkey Business
And now let's talk about monkeys. Today, at a gift fair at my work, I bought my brother this flying monkey for his birthday. There were monkeys flying all over the office today. And this monkey? When you slingshot it across the room and it hits the wall, it lets out this hilarious monkey scream. AH AH AH AH!!
That lead to a conversation about pet monkeys. Which, it turns out, one of my coworkers had as a kid. He had two squirrel monkeys called Cheech and Charlie. Cheech was as sweet as could be and loved to hang out with his humans. Charlie, on the other hand, was a little devil with a bad attitude. One night the kids in the family were sitting at the dinner table eating a dessert of donuts (who gives their kids donuts after dinner?). My coworker's brother James was eating when Charlie the monkey snuck up under the table, reach his long little arm up over to the tabletop and snatched James' donut. He then took off into the living room, James hot on his heals, and scampered up the curtains (one-armed, since he had to hold his prize in the other arm) and camped out on the curtain rod. Not to be outdone by a monkey, James ran for a chair. Charlie ate that donut (almost twice his size because he was so small) as fast as he could, but hadn't gotten very far before James snatched it right back. Charlie was so angry he jumped on James, grabbed him by both ears, and bit him square on the nose.
So how about you, if you could have any fun animal as a pet, what would it be?
posted by atpanda at 3:46 PM
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6 Comments:
Hmmmm....I think a fun animal to have as a pet would be a baby monkey. I wouldn't want to have a grown-up one, though, because of stuff like you wrote about....LOL
Michele sent me.
o.m.g. hahahah! That poor monkey! All he wanted was his donut, dammit!
Happy belated blogday to youuuu! I know, NaBloPoMo is keeping very busy too :)
It seems monkeys are fun but I could only handle that for about an hour, lol. Happy blogging!
I am such a pet lover! If I could live on a farm and keep tons of animals I would!
But I ALWAYS wanted a horse, a dolphin and a monkey.
Obviously my parents said NO to all three since we had a space issue! lol
I love monkey busniess
I must say that I am not surprised. Any parent that would allow two wild animals be pets to children, would no doubt serve donuts for dessert. I would love to have one of those little guys though.
We are seriously considering the purchase of a Serval cat. it's an african wildcat. Maybe when we have more land. Won't that be cool?
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