I worked for awhile at a zoo. Cleaning cages and such didn’t pay well, but then the gorilla died.
That sounds sad and it was, especially because it was the zoo’s only gorilla. The gorilla was popular and the owner noticed an immediate steep decline in attendance.
A couple days later, she called me in and asked if I’d like to make $300 a day. That was a huge jump in pay so I said sure.
The next day I was in a gorilla suit, pretending to be the new one. Doing that convincingly was easier than you might think! Still, people got bored after a while with my same old antics.
I had an idea for ramping up interest, but I’d been scared to try it. I wanted to keep that good money flowing though, so I climbed onto a big branch. Even though it was above the lions’ cage.
I swung around on the branch with a firm grip, and soon enough the crowd was almost cheering. I was pretty strong in those days, so I did a lot of crazy swinging on that branch. Even the lions looked interested.
One day though, sure enough, I lost my grip slipped and fell right into the lions’ cage. I started screaming for help, all the louder when the biggest lion jumped on my back.
I stopped screaming when he whispered in my ear, “Shut up, you’ll get us all fired!”
