Live from Las Vegas

"Salt"

A very short (and very goony) story by Daisy (me!)

Setting:

Las Vegas, USA

The action takes place at:

The Stratosphere Tower

Vince Hummel was tensely pacing his office. Consuelo had finished cleaning up from strawberry yogurt fifteen minutes, and Vince was sure she'd purposely left some new disaster in his office, which he hadn't discovered yet. Then she'd have to come clean again, and then she would snoop.

His phone rang a few minutes later. He snatched it up impatiently, sure that it would be Consuelo. "Hello?"

He was right. "Hola, senior!"

"What did you do to my carpet this time?" Vince demanded.

"Oh, senior, nothing to the carpet this time . . . I just remembered that I left a sixty-four ounce can of salt in your window."

Vince whirled around to look. He discovered salt pouring out of his window. "WHY, IT'S AN OUTRAGE!!!"

****

Jay was playing "Candy Girl" when Marty came in with a handful of some white substance.

"What's that?" Jay asked. "Don't tell me it's snowing outside!"

"It's snowing alright," Marty replied, "but it's not snowing snow. It's snowing salt."

"Salt?" Jay repeated. "That's crazy!"

"I know it's crazy," Marty agreed, "but that's exactly what's happening. And I think it's coming from Vince's office."

"AUGH!!!"

"Well, something's happening in Vince's office, that's for sure," Jay remarked.

Then Stanley came in. "Where is all this salt coming from?" he demanded, holding up a handful of his own. "The wind blew it at my car!"

Before anyone could reply, Consuelo entered. "Oh, hola, seniors!" She noticed that Marty and Stan were holding salt. "Oh, my goodness! I thought it was raining salt outside, but I figured that it simply could not be!"

Vince came out of his office. "So, here you are!" he said. "Salt was pouring out of my window, from your container!" He held up a half-full container of salt. "Luckily, I was able to get the container righted before all sixty-four ounces went out the window!"

Consuelo took the container from Vince. "Gracias, senior, and I am so sorry about the salt that fell out the window," she added apologetically to the disc jockeys. Then she turned around and left.

"The snoops!" Vince roared. "They're always causing some new disaster so that they'll have to come clean up from it and then they can SNOOP!!"

"Calm down, Vince," Marty said. "I'm sure Consuelo isn't doing any of this stuff purposely so she can snoop."

"Yeah," Stanley agreed. "She's just . . . uh . . . a little clumsy."

"The clumsiness is AN ACT!!" Vince yelled. "SHE'S SNOOPING!!!"

"I don't think Vince is ever going to believe that Consuelo isn't snooping," Jay said. Marty and Stan had to agree.

Vince stomped back into his office and slammed the door with such force that Stan swore the whole Stratosphere shook.