Word Count: 456
Rating:
PG.
Category: Humour.
Story Status:
Complete
Summary: Just a silly bit of fluff based on the Mr Men books!
Beta:
Thank you to Leesa Perrie for the beta-reading.
Mr Snark
By Jayne Perry
Meet Mr Snark.
Mr Snark lives in Water Town.
Today was the first day of his driving lesson. So he left his apartment and made his way towards the driving school.
On his way he met Major Scruff.
"Good morning, Major Scruff," said Mr Snark.
"Good morning, Mr Snark," said Major Scruff. "Where are you going?"
"To my first driving lesson," said Mr Snark.
"I can teach you to drive," said Major Scruff.
"I didn't know you had a car. Or a car that works," Mr Snark said snarkily.
"I have a little puddle jumper," answered Major Scruff.
"A little car might be easier to learn in. Does it go fast?" asked Mr Snark.
"As fast and as slow as you like," replied the Major.
Along the way they met Dr Z, the hero of Water Town.
When Dr Z found out where they were going he decided to go with
them. After all, they were very good at getting into trouble, and
he was the hero of Water Town.
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"Radek, have you finished that children’s book for Teyla yet? You
know, the one that is supposed to help the kids learn English," asked
Rodney from the doorway.
"Erm...... nearly there."
"Can I look, just to check your English? After all, it isn't your first language."
"No, no. It is fine. You will see it when finished,
okay. Now go. Leave me in peace to write so I can get to
projects."
"If you are sure you don't need me to help."
Zelenka glared at Rodney.
"In that case I'll go. But I’ll be back later for a project update." And with that Rodney left.
Zelenka looked at what he had written and regretfully deleted his Mr
Men story. Looking at his laptop he wondered what story to
write. He didn't want to inflict the 'My name is Radek. I
live in.......' and the 'Jack throws the ball to Jill' stories he had
had to endure when learning English himself. After all, it was
the written English the Athosian kids needed to learn as they already
spoke it.
After pondering a short while he began again.
'There were three bears, a daddy bear, a mummy bear and a baby bear.'
Zelenka paused. 'I will talk to Teyla later to replace bear with an appropriate animal,' he thought to himself.
As he wrote his version, Goldilocks bore a striking resemblance to
Kavanagh, not that he would admit it to anybody. So he decided to
end the story a little differently, after all, the Athosians were also
hunters.
'The three bears caught up with Goldilocks and ate her all up.
'The moral of the story being not to annoy bears, steal from them or break their furniture.'
