Did you hear about the man who was looking for a job? He
noticed there
was
an opening at the local zoo. Upon inquiry, he discovered the
zoo had a
very
unusual position that they wanted to fill. Apparently their
gorilla had
died, and until they could get a new one, they needed
someone to dress
up
in a gorilla suit and act like a gorilla for a few
days.
He was to just sit, eat, and sleep. Of course, his identity
would be
kept a
secret, and no one would be the wiser, thanks to a very fine
gorilla
suit.
The zoo offered good pay for this job, so the man decided to
do it. He
tried on the suit and sure enough, he looked just like a
gorilla.
They led him to the cage; he took a position at the back of
t he cage
and
pretended to sleep. But after a while, he got tired of
sitting so he
walked
around a little bit, jumped up and down and tried a few
gorilla noises.
The
people watching him seemed to really like that. When he
would move or
jump
around, they would clap and cheer and throw him peanuts. And
the man
loved
peanuts. So he jumped around some more and tried climbing a
tree.
That seemed to really get the crowd excited. They threw more
peanuts.
Playing to the crowd, he grabbed a vine and swung from one
side of the
cage
to the other. The people loved it and threw more peanuts.
"Wow! This is great," he thought. He swung higher and the
crowd grew
bigger. He continued to swing on the vine,
getting higher and higher and then all of a sudden, the vine
broke! He
swung up and out of the cage, landing in the lion's cage
that was next
door.
He panicked. There was a huge lion not twenty feet away, and
it looke d
very
hungry. So the man in the gorilla suit
started jumping up and down, screaming and yelling, "Help,
help! Get me
out
of here! I'm not really a gorilla! I'm a man in a gorilla
suit!
HELP!"
The lion quickly pounced on the man, held him down and said,
"Will you
be
quiet! You're going to get both of us fired!"