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| Mrs. Corythosaurus and her daughter Morgan decide what they should sell at AAI.'s garage sale while Mr. Parasaurolophus packs up items in the background. |
If you think your room can get messy, well, you haven't seen messy
until you've seen the kinds of messes some of the residents at Animal
Adventures Inc. (AAI.) can make! Check out my co-writer
Lizzy the Lizard's apartment when it gets messy! Sometimes the
residents' (animals and humans alike) apartments can get very
cluttered with stuff. The reason being? Frankly AAI. doesn't
have the kind of places where residents can drop off unused or
unwanted items so they sort of add up after a while. Sure, they often
trade with one another and give things away, but it still doesn't
solve the problem.
This is when AAI.'s first ever Hodge Podge Garage Sale comes
into play! To find out more, my trusty, junior photographer, Daniel
P. Smithwater and I went to AAI.'s founder, president and the
the brains behind the idea, Nigel Milligan. Nigel's quoted for
saying, “After a while, everyone just needs to get rid of stuff. I
for one need to clean out my basement. I was looking down there the
other day for some files I needed and I found them inside a pizza box
dated 2012! As if that's not bad enough, there was actually pizza
inside . . . can't say it would taste very good to me, but Rack-Coon,
our head chef, doesn't seem to think it tastes that bad. But that's
because raccoons are often known for climbing into dumpsters to
retrieve food. Fortunately, he doesn't use what he finds in the trash
to make other people's dishes when he's cooking.”
The Garage Sale is going to take place on April 12th, 2014
right on AAI. property in front across from Mary's Mall. Even
though it isn't until next week, many animals and humans are already
preparing for the event; they're gathering things they plan to give
away. The local hadrosaur (or duck-billed dinosaur) family –
consisting of Para the Parasaurolophus, his wife Graciela the
Corythosaurus and Morgan their daughter – is one great
example. We had the opportunity to get an exclusive interview with
the family. “I know it's almost a week away,” says Cory as she
packs some stuff into some boxes, “but this is really a big event
for us hadrosaurs! We hardly ever have the chance to clear out stuff
like this. I hope . . . [I'll] finally be able to get rid of this bed
set that I got for my birthday. I really like it, but it's really
made for a human being to lie on, hon. This little thing isn't going
to support my two-ton weight. Add my 2.5-ton husband to that and you've got a broken bed frame. Better give it to someone who can
use it.” Morgan is also excited about the possibility of getting
rid of some things. “To tell you the truth,” Morgan whispers, “my
Mom's a bit of a packrat, so any opportunity we get to give away
stuff we need to take. For the past several years she's been holding
onto her the first pot she ever cooked with. Seriously! The whole
thing's pretty warn because I'm pretty sure it's cheaply made.” At
that moment, Morgan tried to slip the pot into a box of things to
give away when a loud foghorn-like noise from the kitchen alerts us
to the fact that Morgan's been busted in the act. “Morgan! How many
times do I have to tell you?” she exclaims. “I can't get rid of
the first pot I ever cooked in! Tell ya what hon, put that back on
the kitchen counter.” Morgan looked at me and said, “See what I
mean?”
Animals aren't the only creatures hoping to give away unwanted stuff.
Dr. Steve Stevenson at AAI.'s Animal Adventures Institute
and his assistant Oliver Oviraptor are also boxing up stuff to give
away at the garage sale. Dr. Steve is quoted for saying, “Some of
the equipment in my lab is old but still works. I'd love to use it,
but I simply can't because my system's too new for some of the
equipment to handle and they don't work together well. I have some
scientist buddies who live nearby who would be most happy to use this
stuff. They've got older laboratory systems that will work with the
old equipment just fine.” That's not the only equipment that's
going to be given away: Oliver Oviraptor says that they have loads
and loads and loads of plastic eggs in their storage center, so many
that they aren't quite sure what to do with them all. “We use
plastic eggs to inject dinosaur embryos into that will grow to be too
large to fit grow comfortably inside the egg off a living species of
animal. These plastic eggs are specially designed to function almost
like real eggs and they really come in handy when we're cloning
sauropods. Sauropods laid some of the largest eggs ever to be laid on
the planet! Some sauropods hatch out of eggs the size of soccer or
footballs! Unfortunately, now we have too many eggs and not
enough dinosaurs to hatch. So when Dr. Steve invites some of his
scientist friends to the garage sale, we'll give tons of them away.
That's a fact!”
Nigel believes that the garage sale was a great idea and many more
AAI. residents than the ones we interviewed will be
participating. “With well over 700 animals and less than a hundred
humans,” Nigel says, “I believe we'll have a huge turnout
. . . hopefully Rack-Coon can prepare enough food . . .”
Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P.
Smithwater
Edited by: Christian
Ryan, Joy Hammond
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