Life's a Circus, Friday, Second Period

[exboywonder.livejournal.com]

"Hey everyone," Dick said as the class gathered in the middle of the typical Danger Room circus tent. He was holding a box of popcorn. "This week, we're going to learn a little bit about taking care of the animals. And our helper today is going to be Bessie the elephant." Yes, Dick named the imaginary elephant that was walking over to him. He pet Bessie's trunk and continued talking.

"The most important thing to remember once again is safety. And not just your own, even if you do want to be careful when a five ton animal is stomping around. But you also have to treat the animals right. And that means feeding them, cleaning them, making sure they're healthy, and that's without trying to teach them tricks. If one of your animals gets sick because you didn't treat them right, it could die."

"So let's make it interesting today," Dick said. "For the second half of class, you can all ride an elephant. The Danger Shop can manage that. But you have to earn the right by putting in some hard work. You can wash an elephant with a hose - but your elephant may spray water back at you with his or her trunk. Or you can clean up a pile of manure so that it can be processed and sold commercially for gardens. Yes, that's what circuses do with that. Do either of those for the first half of class and you get to spend the second half on Bessie or one of her friends."

"Or you can just hang around the seats and talk, but fair warning, a moddable clown will be in that area and may try to talk. Or at least try to give you balloon animals."

Comments

Second Half

[exboywonder.livejournal.com]

If you did hard work, ride an elephant!

If you did no work, watch as your classmates RIDE ELEPHANTS.

Re: Second Half

[hurtingzeebo]

"Giddyup, Bessie! Come on, you can do better'n that!"

Yes, Sam was trying to talk her elephant into galloping. Because what this class totally needed was a stampeding pachyderm.

Re: Second Half

[wrongkindofsith]

Riding an elephant wasn't that much different than riding a horse. Just a lot higher.

Re: Second Half

[walkswithcoyote]

This? Was a lot of fun! Mercy was definitely enjoying her elephant ride.

Re: Second Half

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

This elephant ride would possibly be a lot more fun if you got to stand up instead of sit. So she figured she'd give that a try.

Re: Second Half

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

As she went along her days in Fandom, Annie began writing herself a mental checklist of things she never thought she'd have done, and then immediately checking them off. Today's item was "Ride a simulated elephant."

It seemed much higher from up here than it probably was, too. Probably.

Re: Second Half

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

When Richie called Mac he was going to leave out the bit where the elephant wasn't real and just say that he'd gotten to ride an elephant. Hopefully the response wouldn't be "I once spent a month riding elephants in the late 1700s in India." It probably would be though.

But whatever. This was still pretty awesome.