Shady Pets - Holiday Pet Pack

Jingles

Shady Reptile Pet ID: 8308
My hang out: Stuart, FL (USA)

Featured: Holiday Pet Pack - Expansion Pack

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Here’s my story ...

It was bedtime at the Morrow’s house and all the children and pets gathered around for story time. Tonight, the classic tale of ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ was read, and everyone listened with great interest.

After the humans went to sleep, the pets started to discuss the story. There were five of them—a bunny, a hamster, a dog, a cat, and a turtle named Jingles—and they held a little book club, right there in the living room.

‘That was the lamest, most ridiculous story ever’, said the bunny. ‘There’s no way a turtle could ever beat a rabbit in a race. Never. Ever. Ever!’

‘You missed the point’, said the dog. ‘It’s about hard work and perseverance—that’s the secret to success.’

‘Correct’, said Jingles. ‘Don’t listen to bunny… oops. Sorry bunny.’

‘Spare me your apologies!’ cried the bunny. ‘We’re gonna settle this, pet to pet.’

‘Oh no! You’re going to have a fistfight?’ asked the hamster.

‘What? No. We’re gonna race’, said the bunny. ‘Didn’t you listen to the story?’

‘Also, neither of us can make a fist’, added Jingles.

‘Where will you race?’ asked the cat.

‘How about something short’, said Jingles. ‘Around the Christmas tree, maybe?”

So, all the pets gathered around the tree, and the dog held up his paw.

‘On your marks… get set… go!”

The bunny took a nonchalant hop forward.

‘Like taking candy from a particularly ugly baby’, he said.

But when the bunny had completed a circuit, he found that the turtle was already at the finish line.

‘I won!’ yelled the bunny.

‘Nope’, said Jingles. ‘I did. I got to the finish line first. You see, if a race track is circular, then the start and the finish lines are the same. Therefore, I finished at the same time I started.’

The cat, hamster and dog agreed. (I mean, outwardly they ‘agreed’ with this dubious logic. Inwardly, they agreed that the bunny was being an ass and deserved to be taken down a peg.)

And that’s how Jingles won the race around the Christmas tree!