December 14, 2007

Paper! Gone!

This is a Narrative I wrote for English. It is really funny!!!
Gone!
When I was in college, my job was to feed the animals every night at the Richardson Zoo after everyone went home. One night, about a year after I had started my job I headed to the gorilla cage, 1st as usual, because I was deathly afraid of him and I got to his cage and realized the door was open and Mugsy the gorilla was gone! I called to the zoo security and said, ”Help, help, lose on the gorilla.”
“ Excuse me ma’m,” the security guard said, “what is the lose and how is it on the gorilla?”
“No, I yelled” The gorilla is on the lose” I could tell he wasn’t getting it. So trying to stay calm and not get upset I said “The gorilla got free, you know they can run lose.”
The security guard said “ That’s great”, because apparently he loved animals and didn’t like to see them in cages. So I am in this zoo with a security guard who doesn’t want to help, a bunch of animals, and a gorilla on the lose. So obviously, I had to do something. I just had figure out what. I decided the best thing to do was take some of the gorillas food with me and leave some in his cage. I went out searching for the gorilla and as I started out I found paw prints, but along side them were footprints.
“Hmm,” I thought that is strange. “Of course, there is always footprints around the zoo, but instead of going in there own direction this set seemed to have guided the gorilla. “That is strange,” I thought to myself.”Well, I said “ some one must have tried to take the gorilla and it looks like they are getting away with it too. I couldn’t believe it” Think of it our prize gorilla getting stolen! But why would any one steal a gorilla?” I couldn’t figure out why anyone would want a gorilla but, all the same I couldn’t let them get away with this. I didn’t know what to do to find him though.
So I decided to follow the footprints all the way past the bear cages on the other side of the zoo. The footprints seemed to go on forever. I followed and followed them until I reached the city. In the city square I saw a poster hanging from a shop advertising animals for auction. I ran to the place where the auction was to be held and found I was just in time. Mugsy was up for auction they were auctioning Mugsy! I had to do something had some money, I would win Mugsy back I decided. I started biding. The biding rose. “300”,I yelled.
The man next to me, who owned a circus bid 1,000. I just had to win. I was getting exited. The number kept rising. I finally bid 1,000,000 dollars! “Opps, I thought!” I don’t have that much!” Well, I had won the gorilla. I had also left myself broke in the process.

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