Silly Stories with Dairy.

"Donkey Kong"

"Dude! Trust me. If a wooden pallet can hold the weight of Donkey Kong jumping on it. A gorilla. I think it can handle a few seven year old boys." I said as matter of fact as possible.

I was a foolish child who was always doing dumb things in the name of adventure. It was a warm spring day. The many feet of a difficult winter melted away. Down the street from my friends house was a park which had a large soccer field dug into the ground. It was  flooded with about a foot deep of water.

"I just do not see how that could work. Once you land on it, won't it fly out from under you?" My friend replied.

"Nu uh, dumby. The mass of the pallet is more than our mass. Haven't you seen Bill Nye the Science guy?" I mocked. I began to stretch on the shore line.

I turned and jogged to the top of the hill and looked down over the field. A serene lake free of any fish or monsters was laid out in front of me. A perfect line of eight pallets were floating in the foot deep waters. Because winter had just ended the soccer goals were still down and in storage. Unless there was any unseen trash under the murky waters. I shouldn't have had anything to worry about if I did fall in.

"You won't do it!" My friend called out to me.

"Aight, Bet." I said in 1996...

I turned and sprinted down the hill as fast as I could. I felt like an Olympic runner as I flew past my friend. I tripped over his foot and tumbled to the ground. I rolled. I somehow stopped myself from falling into the pond. 

"That was a close one. Throw me a senzu bean. I got it this time." I called up to my buddy. He threw me a M&M.

"Now I am ready to go super." I said loudly. I forced a deep toned laugh out of my chest to sound tough.

"We're such nerds." My friend laughed at us.

I jogged back up the hill with the excitement of a little kid discovering his first attraction at a carnival. I had played platform video games like Super Mario World, Or Donkey Kong. They always had these tiny pallets that you could land and jump off of before they would begin to sink into the water. I was fully convinced I could achieve the same effects in real life. I knelt down and tucked my head into my chest. I took the starting position of a all time track and field star.

"Yell bang for me to go!" I called out.

"BANG!" My friend yelled.

I took off running full sprint down the hill. Gravity was sucking me in and adding to my speed as I rocketed down the hill. Grass caught fire as my steps rushed past so quickly. The friction was to much to handle.

"I say you biff it on the first one!" I heard my friend call out as I jumped from the shoreline.

Hermes himself came down and gave lift to my efforts. I leapt so high and far that I nearly over shot the first pallet. I landed on its corner and it shot out from underneath me, The senzu bean had worked though. I jumped off in time...To land directly face first into the second pallet in the middle of this muddy pond.

I got up and sniffled like a brave little boy who didn't wanna cry in front of his friend.

"I am okay, but can we go home now?" I asked choking back tears.

"Yeah, come on buddy. We can dry off when we get back to my place." He said as he walked through the water to help me up.

"Why did you come in after me? Now you are all wet too." I said as we climbed up the hill and walked down the street towards our futures.

"That is what friends are for aint it?" Is what he answered.