Henrietta in New York

	Once again we tell a story of Henrietta Hippo, but this time she is in New York 
visiting her sick grandmother.  Henrietta decided that she would go to the flower shop to 
buy some potted flowers for her grandmother to help her feel well.  Henrietta pulled her 
truck over to the flower shop and went inside.  When she walked in she noticed that there 
was a special on flowers.  You receive one brownie for each plant that you buy.  
Henrietta bought ten plants.  She paid the cashier and collected her brownies.  She put the 
plants in the bed of her truck and drove off to the hospital, munching on a brownie.

Once she arrived, Henrietta grabbed her plants (and brownies) and hopped onto 
the elevator.  Henrietta pushed the number for the top floor (that's where her 
grandmother was) and the doors shut.  After moving upward, for about three floors, the 
elevator immediately halted to a stop!

"Oh NO!" exclaimed Henrietta.  She was extremely worried that something could 
be seriously wrong, but Henrietta kept an optimistic mind about her and thought that it 
was only a matter of seconds before the elevator would start up again.  It didn't.  
Henrietta screamed.  Henrietta noticed that there is an emergency button and frantically 
pushed the button with no relief.  Then, on top of her already grief stricken situation, the 
lights went out.  Henrietta screamed, again, and she was worried about her food.  She had 
only one-half of a brownie left!  But Henrietta remembered her incident with the 
basement and she knew that she could manage, for a while.  After popping the last bit of 
brownie into her mouth she remembered something.  Her oxygen!  She quickly stuffed 
her face into the plants and took deep breaths, hoping to get some air.  When she did this 
she noticed that there was an air vent right above her head.

"Maybe," Henrietta thought, "I could climb out of that vent!"  Henrietta looked at 
her watch and realized that she had been in there for an hour and a half.

"Why hasn't anyone come to rescue me?" Henrietta wondered.  Henrietta decided 
that she would wait a little bit longer and if no one came soon, she would climb out.  
Henrietta waited a little while with no luck.  She was getting hungry and her brownies 
had been gone for quite some time.

"I have to climb out!" Henrietta told herself.  She popped open the vent easily.  
Then she put her plants through the vent.  Henrietta hoisted herself up and barely 
squeezed herself through the vent.

"Boy! Am I beat!" Henrietta exclaimed to herself.  It was tough getting out of that 
elevator.  Henrietta sat for a half an hour to collect her thoughts and her plants.  She 
looked around and saw a door.  It wasn't parallel to the elevator's roof but she could 
make it.  Henrietta stood up and yawned.  It had been a hard day!  She grabbed her plants 
and started to walk over to the door.  Suddenly the place where she had been walking 
started to creek and bend.  Henrietta ran toward the door and leaped up to the door's 
ledge.  Henrietta looked back and saw that where she had walked that there were big 
dents.  The elevator's top hadn't been strong enough to support her.  Now she was safe.

"Well here I go!" Henrietta said and opened the door and walked out.  She noticed 
that this was the 5th floor of the hospital and she was standing right in front of her 
grandmother's room.  Henrietta rushed into her grandmother's room, happy that she had 
overcome another ordeal

"Well hi!" Exclaimed Grandma Hippo. "I am feeling much better today.  Did you 
bring me all of those beautiful plants!?" Grandma Hippo asked with glee.  "I am so happy 
that you came to see me!"

"But before I tell you anything else," Henrietta said, "let me tell you a story of 
what happened to me today!"  Henrietta told her grandmother the story of what 
happened.  They both exchanged other stories and before Henrietta knew it, it was time to 
leave.  They both exchanged farewells, hugs and kisses; and Henrietta left.  Once she got 
to the lobby (she used the stairs) she saw the elevator that she had used.  There was a sign 
on it saying out of service.  Henrietta was in such a hurry that she didn't even see the sign 
before she got onto the elevator.  Well at least she had gotten out.

When Henrietta got home, she took a shower and went to bed.

"Boy, this had been quite a day!" Henrietta exclaimed. And with that in mind, 
Henrietta fell fast asleep.