Thursday, May 28, 2015

Person/Place/Thing: Single Dad, Dairy Queen, Magic Ukulele

"I can't believe that after 29 years of marriage, she decides to leave me for an unemployed man who can barely afford a shack to live in." As the man sat alone in a velvet red booth at a Dairy Queen, he drank his melted ice cream which his waterfall of tears had melted. His life seemed to be over. Suddenly, a midget holding a sparkly ukulele, which looked like a regular guitar in proportion to his body, winked at him and disappeared into thin air. The only evidence that the man was ever there, was the ukulele, which sat on the neighboring table next to the man. The lonely father picked up the instrument, and it played a sharp, high pitched tone. He looked around the restaurant and noticed that no one else could hear the sound. Then, the man heard a piercing voice coming out of the body of the ukulele. He put his ear very close to the source of the sound, and then it screamed "Go to hell" and it began to laugh hysterically. Furious, the man stormed out of the Dairy Queen and slammed the ukulele on the ground, sending the stings flying and the rest broken into millions of pieces. He sprinted to his car, slammed his door shut, and blasted the radio to tune out any of the negative thoughts in his mind. As the music played louder and louder, it abruptly came to a stop, and complete silence filled the car. Confused, the lonely father tried to restart his car. This time, the same voice that came out of the ukulele in the restaurant came on even louder and said "Go to hell!" As the laughing continued, the man swerved out of the parking lot and wrapped his car around a tree. Immediately, the depressed man was taken out of his misery.

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