Ultimate Custom Night - Mr. Hippo Monolouge
Channel: Pinion ‎‎‎‏‏Plays
Date: 2018-06-27

Ah, it seems that you have met your end, what a pity. You know I-- I don't feel too bad about it though after all if it weren't me it would have just been one of the others I guess. I'm honestly just glad to be out of those air ducts. You know it's-- it's not easy for a hippopotamus to fit up there, and not easy to get down either, not as young as I used to be as you can see. I used to be able to do all the sorts of things-- you're young, you're vibrant, you have that sort of pep in your step. Reminds me of a conversation I was having with one of my good friends Orville. We were having a nice picnic one day I believe it was summer..? No perhaps it was-- was it the fall..? Yes yes. It was the fall because the leaves had turned already. But I said to Orville I says, "Orville, I have a story to tell you." An' Orville looked at me you know kinda odd and said "What's it about?" I-- I said to him "Not every story has to be about something, Orville. Sometimes a person just wants to talk, why does everything have to be a story?" I said to him. He just looked at me and he said, "Well you you you said you had a story." An' you know he was quite right, I did in fact. I told him I had a story, I suppose if a person just wants to talk then, it's best to not announce that you're telling a story. Telling a story does come with its own pressures and expectations I, I suppose. After all, if you're just talkin to a friend then there's no more expectations than if you were talking into the wind. Words by themselves aren't expected to carry, aren't expected to stick, but if you know you annouce you're telling a story, well then there'd better be a point to it all, y'know? No one wants to sit and listen to someone ramble on and on and on with absolutely no end in sight. So you know it's-- it's good to be mindful that when you tell someone that you're about to tell a story, that you have something to say. Telling someone that you're going to tell them a story is tantamount to asking them to stop what they're doing and-- and pay attention. You're basically saying, "Hey hey, hey buddy, stop everything, stop what you're thinking I have a solution to everything." An' well I didn't really have any story to tell. In-- in hindsight I probably just misspoke when I said that I had a story. I think it would have just been better to tell the Orville that I wanted to tell him something rather than tell him that I had a story, but you know even then it might have put too much importance on the whole thing. Either way it was quite a nice day. I remember-- I remember that we were drinking tea.