The+Wowzies

Once upon a time, there was a very intelligent monkey named Steve who lived at a zoo. He wanted to be a mathematition. But all the other monkeys made fun of him. They said to him, "monkeys can't be mathematitions! You have to spend the rest of your life here at this zoo, being stared at by people all day". Steve wouldn't let them discourage him, however, so one night, when the rest of the zoo was asleep, Steve unlatched the cage door and crept out. He escaped into the big city, and slept in a park. They next day the zoo was in a panic. But Steve set out to find a job working in an office, where he would prove to the world that animals are smart. He dressed up in a suit, put an intelligent expression on his face, and walked into a job interivew. Luckily, the boss was very interested and offered Steve a job at his company. Everyone welcomed him and treated him nicely. He was so happy that he even forgot about his friends back at the zoo. A week into his job, Steve started getting tired of the workload he was getting every night. It was so different from doing nothing at the zoo to working all day and night everyday. His weekends weren't to be spend with happy little children and their families. He would sit home and do math all weekend. He started to miss his life at the zoo. Two weeks later, the boss and his co-workers saw Steve's unhappiness. But because they needed him so badly, they werent about to just give him up. The co-workers were nice enough to comfort him and encourage him, but the boss saw the situation differently. He thought that if he could keep this monkey working for him long enough, it would go to the public and he could earn money and fame. After a few more weeks of being practically held by his own will in the job the boss went public and earned lots of money and fame. After getting all this money he saw the unhappiness in Steves face and so he offered him two things. First he said you can continue working for me and I will allow you to make a permanant home in the zoo and have some one pick you up every day. On the other hand though, you can leave this job and become the manager at one of my new companies that will be expanding soon. Steve sat and thought about this for a long time rubbing his hand on his chin. He finnally stood up and said to his boss that he would take the first job offer because he could not stand to be away from his family. So he returend to the zoo only to find that the chimps had actually been sent to a different zoo in the place Steve was actually going to work. So Steve came back told his boss this and his boss allowed him to go manage a new workplace. When he finnally came to the new country he went looking for his friends and had found them in a large local zoo right next to where he worked. And so every weekend he spend time with all his friends. All was well with the monkey family for a while, but then the other monkeys began to get jealous. Steve would talk about his job and his work in front of the monkeys, and they all felt stupid because they didn't understand math. Steve was happy, but the other monkeys wanted him gone. So one night, after he had fallen asleep, the resentful monkeys packed him up in a crate, sealed it, and threw it on a passing truck. Steve awoke in the box as it was on the truck, and became very frightened. He had no idea where he was going. By coincidence, the truck which Steve was riding on was headed for the airport, filled with goods that were being sent over to Africa. When he was put on the plane in his crate, he managed to escape the crate, but the plane was already on its way. Steve sadly looked out the window, but then, as they neared Africa, recognized a jungle from a postcard one of his friends who lived there had sent him. So Steve grabbed a parachute and jumped out of the plane, landing in the heart of the jungle. He wandered around, then by chance happened to see his friend. The two had a joyous reunion, and Steve told his friend all about his adventures.