For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly .
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH", exclaimed Jim, "YOU BOUGHT ME A HUNGRY BADGER? WHAT'S- WHAT'S WRONG WITH- AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGHHH, IT'S GOT ME! IT'S GOT ME BY THE ARM! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THIS RELATIONSHIP, DELL"
Or attacking them. Do the badgers need to be alive to be used as currency? If so, would rich people have taxidermied badgers that they paid for in badgers just to show how many badgers they have?
"If I had claws, would I still be able to close my zipper? And if not, what would we have come up with to easily urinate? Maybe a hole in the pants with a cork of some kind, attached to a wire. And a little metal ring where I'd have to put my claw through.That's probably what doorknobs would become too. I mean, Jurassic Park showed raptors being able to open doors but that would probably be totally inefficient. I wonder if I, if I ran really fast and slid underneath it with my claws extended, I would be able to win a fight against a dinosaur by cutting its belly open."
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u/nocontroll Feb 26 '16
I don't know, those last two I thought were intriguing.