Monday, November 03, 2008
Once upon a time, there lived a mango. Now this was no ordinary mango, as it was blue. This mango's name was BlueMango. BlueMango was
very jealous. He constantly looked at all his yellow friends and sniffed, "Hmph! Wait till you all rot and turn black!" His jealousy made him an extremely unpopular mango amongst the fruit section. All the brightly coloured yellow mangoes would make loud rude comments, causing the rest of the fruits to have a misconception of BlueMango's real character.
"I heard that he's mean and insulting!" RedApple would scoff to his fellow fruitmates.
"AND he's a nasty colour!" PurpleGrape would add.
Now, BlueMango was aware of all these comments, and that fuelled his desire to be a mean, insulting, nasty-coloured mango. But no one ever knew, that deep in his heart, he was not a bad mango. It was just the colour of himself that caused him to feel inferior to his bright yellow peers.
But one fateful day, a cucumber was mistakenly thrown into the fruit section by an inconsiderate shopper. GreenCucumber, yes that would be his name, was extremely upset at this turn of events. He desperately wanted to get back into his section and watch some Cantonese dramas about hot football players like Lam Yik-tan. The thought of him missing it all made him quite upset and he complained loudly, disturbing the fruits. A fruit could not stand his complaints any longer. He had been laughed at for his name for quite a while now, and telling the cucumber off would attract more attention to him, but he so didn't care.
"Hey!" yelled OrangeOrange. "Some of us are trying to sleep 'round here! Pipe it down a 'lil bit, will ya?"
Everyone started shouting at GreenCucumber about disturbance of their sleep.
At this moment, BlueMango stepped out. He gave a huge, long pep talk, and surprisingly, no one laughed, scoffed or simply fell asleep. Everyone was listening.
"Hey, stop. Let's just help the dude get back to his stupid section so we can all go back to sleep."
Everyone murmured in agreement and got to work. The apples, led by ScarletApple, went off to find the cucumber's section. The oranges, following Yellowy-redOrange, joined forces with the grapes, whose leader was VioletGrape, to push the stupid vegetable to his own "stupid section", as quoted by BlueMango.
The mangoes stood around, doing nothing while everyone, including BlueMango, helped. He helped by telling everyone which way to push in case they made him fall of the vegetable crate, or worse, fall into the potato area of the vegetable section. The potatoes were known to be extremely fussy about the neatness of their area.
After they managed to get GreenCucumber out of their way, BlueMango made his way to his area, preparing for more insults. And in the end, there WERE insults.
"Hey mangoes!" shouted ScarletApple. "How come YOU weren't helping earlier?"
"YEAH!" chimed the other fruits, preparing to launch an attack against the mangoes. They managed to appreciate BlueMango a whole lot more, and everyone lived in peace after a mango-lover bought all the yellow mangoes.
The End.
@ 2:25 AM