children's story, number 2

little kathy carried the shoe up to the desk, followed by little jay, who was there for moral support.  she inquired as to the availability of a certain size of the purple shoe which had caught her eye.  the girl behind the desk took from little kathy the shoe and disappeared into the back of the store, proclaiming authoritatively that she would find out.  and so little kathy and little jay presumed to wander about the little store, half-pretending to peruse the remainder of the shoe displays.  they only half-pretended because the pretending half prevented them from being asked to leave, and the non-pretending half served as protection from strangers offering to help them, which little kathy did not want to happen--seeing that strangers are not to be talked to, while also it is rude to not answer when asked a question.  and thus they continued their half-charade of perusing while they waited upon the desk girl's return.  after a great deal of time, it seemed as though the desk girl may never return, which caused some amount of restlessness in little jay.  it seemed that no matter what little kathy said or did, little jay would not cease his running frantically about the store. just then, the desk girl appeared from the back, holding the purple shoe, though little kathy disappointedly noticed that the desk girl did not carry with her a box containing two similar shoes in little kathy's size.  the desk girl elaborated that she had been unsuccessful in her search of the back of the store for the purple footwear that would fit little kathy.  this did not fool little kathy, however, since she was wise enough to ascertain that the unnaturally long length of time which the desk girl had so carelessly expended in the back of the store was not actually spent in search of the shoes, but rather in mocking torment aimed at little kathy.  at this little jay flew into a fit of rage, after which he quickly became quite violent.  he wandered slowly over to little kathy and politely asked her if he might be allowed to borrow her collection of dairy queen spoons.  little kathy, not understanding what exactly it was that little jay was about to do, told him to go ahead.  and so little jay borrowed little kathy 's dairy queen spoon collection, one spoon of which he grasped angrily in his right hand, clutching the others in his left.  he began to repeatedly step menacingly in the direction of the desk girl, still angrily gripping the spoon in his right hand.  once he surmised that he was within spooning range, little kathy watched in horror and amazement as little jay's rage compelled him to quite gruesomely reduce the desk girl to a plethora of scoopings piled on the floor next to him.  little jay returned what was left of the collection of dairy queen spoons to little kathy, apologizing for those spoons which had not survived the ordeal.  he then asked her to help him carry the pieces of the desk girl (which he fully intended to place inside a plastic bag first) up some stairs so that he might throw her out a window.

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