The Tale of the Princess and the Train

On a very quiet night, a very tired princess was sleeping soundly in her bed when she was abruptly awoken by a sound. This was a sound that she was used to hearing and very rarely woke her, but for some reason, on this very quiet night, she was wide awake. She wondered if her window was open just a little, allowing the sound to come in, but because she was so tired, she rolled over and went back to sleep instead of checking the window. It was not long before she heard the noise again. This time, it was so loud that it sounded like the train, from which the noise was coming, was driving right through her bedroom. She got out of her bed to check the window and make sure that it was shut tight against the sounds coming from outside and found that it was shut as tight as it could go. So, she turned around to crawl back into her bed when she lost her balance and stumbled onto the side of her bed. Much to her horror, the bed also lost its balance and fell off of the plastic cones it was sitting on to make it higher. She was appalled at what had happened and hoped that the princess sleeping below her was not awakened by the sound of her bed collapsing. Luckily, it landed on the things stored beneath the bed. However, the poor princess was wide awake trying to lift her bed enough to get the mattresses and the plastic cones back where they belonged at the very early hour of 4:30 in the morning.

The moral of this story is that plastic cones do not work as well as cinder blocks and if the princess would just break down and buy a bigger, sturdier, bed, this would not happen at all.

The End.