The Rise of Crescent Wrench

[Cherry Pneumatic]

Cherry Pneumatic stood before the Boss in anticipation of a good chewing out...

Cherry, shuffling her feet and looking at the floor: "Boss, I did the stack of chores that you gave me."

Boss, looking slightly annoyed: "But, I only gave you chores enough to last a year and a half! What have you been doing with the other 6 months?"

Cherry laughs nervously and gives a sheepish grin. Finally she manages to form a single word, "Ebay?"

However, the sentence goes no further as the Boss delivers a rousing "Boss Whack" to Cherry's skull.

She wakes about an hour later thankful the Boss is no longer in sight. Rubbing the growing lump on the side of her head she wonders where her two offspring are at the moment.

[Cherry Pneumatic]

Meanwhile, the two children (4 year old Torque and 2 year old Crescent) have been in very capable hands. While mom has been otherwise diverted, the sisters have been spending their afternoons with HAL, who has been teaching them not only perfect articulation but also the reasoning skills to manipulate a world without reason.

Torque turns to her sister and states playfully: "So, what shall we do today? World domination?"

Crescent: "Yes, as long as we're done in time for dinner."

[Cherry Pneumatic]

The Wrench sisters set out that afternoon with trouble in mind. Their first stop was the office of the esteemed Boss where Gandalf was fielding phone calls pretending to be an answering machine.

"You have reached the PGA (squawk!) office. Nobody is here to take your call, but...ACK!..."

Crescent leans over and plucks out a handful of tail feathers and hands them to her sister who starts flinging them around the office. Gandalf is not only shocked at the audacity of something like this, but also at the look of his featherless bottom.

Crescent then climbs onto the desk and grabs Lysander by the tail. Lysander up to this point had been napping. "What shape do you like?" yells Crescent.

"Oh, pretzel him!" shouts Torque.

Crescent begins to twist and yells to her sister who then wrestles with the other end of the snake.

"Aren't reptiles fun?" shouts Torque.

By the time the two ladies leave the office, every file cabinet has been emptied of papers, Gandalf is plucked and hopping mad, and poor Lysander is in knots.

Says Crescent pouting, "All that work has made me thirtsy. Have you seen my sippy cup?"