Once upon a time there were three little purple & green polka-dotted Elephants. They were
brothers. Apparently they were in the construction business. Perhaps if they had been in
real estate to start with, this story would be different. Perhaps not. Anyway... they each
needed to make a home. The first little Elephant decided to build his house out of yellow
elephants. The second little Elephant decided to build his house out of purple elephants.
The third little Elephant, who was older and wiser and kind of bossy said to them, "Yellow
elephants and purple elephants are no good. They may be cheap and easy, but your houses
won't be safe and strong. I'm going to build my house out of pink elephants!" The first two little Elephants just laughed. "You worry too much," they told him. The third little Elephant scolded them. "I'll be pink, but you'll be green when the big bad Llama
comes to your door!" The first two little Elephants just laughed even more,
and in no time at all their houses were finished. A short time later, the first little Elephant was relaxing in his new yellow elephant house
when a knock came at the door. "Who's there?" "Domino Pizza!" said a voice. But when the little Elephant peeked out the window, he saw that it was the big bad Llama. "Go away, Llama," he cried, "Leave me alone!" "OK, then," said the big bad Llama, "I'll huff & I'll puff & I'll blow your house down." And so he
started to huff & puff, but even though the house was only made of yellow elephants,
he could not blow the house down. Finally he gave up and went away, and the first little Elephant felt better and called Santa Fe
Pizza to order their two for one special, one with pepperoni and one with extra pepperoni. Meanwhile the big bad Llama went to the house of the second little Elephant and
knocked on the door. "Who's there?" asked the second little Elephant. "It's Jani!" said the Llama. But the little Elephant peeked out through the peep hole in the door and saw it was the Llama.
"Go away, big bad Llama," said the little Elephant. "OK, then," said the big bad Llama, "I'll huff & I'll puff & I'll blow your house down." And so he
started to huff & puff, but once again, even though this house was only made of purple
elephants, he could not blow the house down. Finally he gave up on that one, too, and went
away. The second little pig felt so happy he called the first little Elephant and went over
to his house to help him eat the pizza. Now the big bad Llama went to where the third little Elephant lived. This little Elephant's
house was still not finished. Pink elephants were so expensive that the third little
Elephant had run into some cash flow problems. He needed a bigger construction loan to
buy more pink elephants but with rising interest rates and declining property values he no
longer qualified. The house was only half finished. The big bad Llama just jumped in
through an unfinised wall and gobbled up the poor little Elephant. After his death, the two brother Elephants got title to the property. They decided to sell it
and by the time it cleared probate property values in that area had skyrocketed and they
made a very nice profit. That was the start of a real estate empire, and eventually they
became rich and bought a major league baseball team and ran it into the ground with
incompetant management. The two Elephants eventually had a falling out (over a young
female Elephant it was rumored) and both died penniless in a nursing home owned and
operated, ironically, by the oldest son of the big bad Llama. In the end, who was pink and who was green? Hard to tell, isn't it?
Yes, hard to tell. Life sure is crazy sometimes.
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