A little girl is skipping down the road holding a balloon. She loves this balloon - it's in the shape of a bunny and the ears flop up and down as she walks along. Suddenly, the little girl sees a lone balloon flying low across the road just up ahead. It's in the shape of a goldfish, it has a beautiful fantail streaming behind it. Mesmerised by the swishing tail, she runs after the goldfish with all the energy and speed she can muster.
Eventually, she manages to catch up with the goldfish balloon and she clutches it happily. She carries on down the road, skipping and singing. After a while, the two balloons start to get tangled up. The bunny ears get caught up in the goldfish tail and the little girl stops. She realises sadly that she cannot have both balloons and she must decide which one she wants to keep. She sits down on a rock and compares the two balloons.
The little girl sighs because she cannot decide. "Oh which one should I keep?" she says out loud.
"You must keep the bunny" says a little voice next to her. She looks down to see a small dog sitting by her feet.
"Why?" she asks.
"Because you don't know who the goldfish balloon belongs to. There could be another little girl running around trying to find her lost balloon.. "
The little girl pouts. She doesn't want to lose the fish balloon because she is fascinated by it's bright colours and swishing tail but she knows that the little dog is right.
"What shall I do with this balloon then?"
"You should go back to where you found it and let it go. Then either it's owner will find it, or it will find a new owner." The dog replies wisely.
The little girls sighs again and then nods. Giving the dog a pat on the head, she runs back to where she found the goldfish balloon, gives it a kiss goodbye and releases it. She feels sad to watch it float away but she is sure that
she did the right thing.
Alone with her bunny balloon again, she carries on down the road. She doesn't skip any longer but keeps an eye out for other little girls who may be looking for a goldfish balloon. Moments later, a very cute little girl appears coming
down the lane the other way. She has a large frown on her sweet face and as she gets closer, our little girl notices that this other little girl is covered in cuts and bruises.
"Excuse me!" says our little girl to the other little girl. The other little girl looks up and stops. She sees our little girl clutching a cute bunny balloon with floppy ears and suddenly goes berserk.
"You stole my balloon! How dare you! I've been looking and looking and looking for that balloon. Don't think that you're going to get away with this you thief!!"
The cute little girl with the cuts and bruises pulls out a big carving knife from her pocket and stabs our little girl in the heart. 10 times. As our little girl slumps to the ground, the cute little girl grabs the bunny balloon and disappears back down the lane, skipping.
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But surely that goes without saying...
Someone asked me once, "what would you do if you saw a pink bunny hopping along the road", my reply was: "kick it really hard". Now I don't think that's particularly harsh because we all know that bunnies aren't really pink and so therefore, if there really was one, it's probably alien and should be avoided at all costs.
As a side note - I actually love rabbits and would never harm a real one intentionally :)
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