Friday afternoon at the train station there was this crazy guy walking around with a monkey puppet on his hand. He and his friend would walk up to everyone they saw, and the little monkey puppet would wave his paw and say "hello!" I think people were afraid to acknowledge him because he might ask them for money or something, so instead everyone just acted angry that there was a friendly little monkey saying hello to them. Nobody seemed to be amused excepet for me. I would have walked up and talked to him myself, but, you know, I didn't want him to ask me for money.
I heard about this other kid at Penn State who had a giant monkey doll, the kind that wraps its long, furry arms around your neck. This kid would ride the Loop, which is the campus bus. He would just ride it all night long, and all the kids on their ways to parties would hang out with him and play with the Loop monkey, and sort of be his friend and make fun of him at the same time. He said he did it because it was better than getting drunk, even though he acted drunk while he did it. Kills less brain cells that way, I guess. I went to his web page where he had posted a ton of crappy techno songs he made, and I mean crappy. But I like crappy-and-I-mean-crappy techno songs, so I almost actually bought his CD, till I realized he was asking people to pay him money for it. Just like the other guy--always asking for money. It's sad, really, how these people can't think about anything but money all the time, but I guess it just says something about monkeys and the people who hang out with them. I'm not sure what it says, but it's definitely saying something.
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