Billy, a raccoon boy of about 10, asked his classmate, Stephanie, a squirrel girl in his fifth grade class, to come over to his place to play this new game he found at the local game store. As they went up to Billy's room, they closed the door as to not be too noisy.
Billy fired up the console and the TV, got out the box, and unwrapped it.
"See? I got this for only 88 cents!"
"Wow!", said the squirrel. "That's really cheap!"
"I only had a buck fifty, so it was all I could afford", he sulked a bit.
The cubs looked at the box: SPACE MEEBLES!
"Oooh, Space Meebles! Sounds so exciting!", the squirrel looked quite excited as she exclaimed.
"Let's try it out!"
Billy took the CD case out of the box, took the CD out of that, and put it in the console's tray, hitting the start button on the console itse;f, as the cubs picked up their controllers. This was normal routine for these two, though usually the games they had were all second- or third-hand.
They looked excited, as they bounced up and down.
PLEASE INSERT COIN came up on the screen.
"What?!" Billy was startled at the bizarre statement on the screen.
"I don't have any coin slot on my..."
PLEASE INSERT COIN
"I would but I..."
PLEASE INSERT COIN OR NO GAME!
"Has this ever happened before?" Stephanie looked concerned.
"No, no... I have no idea what to do!"
examined the console, their controllers, the TV- everything- and couldn't find a coin slot anywhere.
PLEASE INSERT COIN NOW!
They then checked the plastic CD box, then the cardboard box the game came in. Stephanie then noticed it on the back of the box.
"'Please insert coin', it says right here on the back."
There it was, a coin slot.
Billy dug out a quarter he had left over in his change, and inserted it in the slot.
THANK YOU! BECAUSE YOU TOOK SO LONG, I NOW WILL GO TO SLEEP *zZz* came up on the screen, then a sleeping face, followed by the whole console shutting down, with the disc still inside!
"WHAT THE...?!?!", the two cubs exclaimed!
Billy tried to restart the console, to no avail. Stephanie shook the box, and not even the expected rattling sound of the quarter was to be heard. Frantically, she dug into her own purse for a few quarters, shoved them in- Nothing happened!
"Now what'll we do?", she asked.
"I dunno," came Billy's reply. "Maybe we should go play ball or something. Maybe it'll start up again later."
"I hope so," she said. "I put two bucks into that box! That's a lotta nuts for a squirrel!"
Tentacled space ferrets? :o Are they telepathic? Do they have those bouncy dealy-boppers on their heads? Are they little green ferrets from Alpha Centauri? Is their native language somehow remarkably identical to English? :p
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