Plink in the City

Plink in the city

Plink is and excitable little street urchin who resides in dark alley in the middle of a “get lost in five minutes city”.  During the day the city is a buzzing hive full of deli sandwich bars, business lunches, insolent kids who think it’s funny to kick pigeons and people scurrying from A to B all smart in their expensive suits.

In this world of madness sits Plink in his dark, damp HI-FI box.  sure it was battered and the roof flaps leaked but Plink thought it had a nice smell so spent most of his time there planning his next adventure in the big city.  As the evening draws in and the city becomes a ghost town, Plink arises and goes hunting for treasure and anything else that’s been lost in the city that day, he spends all night collecting then brings all his treasure back to his box, lays them out and examines them, “What have I found tonight” squeaked  Plink….. mmmh a shiny watch, a kazoo, a pound coin, a used lipstick and a smiley face badge. “Not a bad haul” Plink grunted contently. It had been a busy night and it had reached 5am, “time for 40 winks before the sun comes up” thought Plink. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

After his 40 winks, Plink set about sorting out his treasure, the watch was amazing and so shiny, the pound coin was cool but the lipstick not so cool!, the kazoo was nice and red but had had some strange drool type stuff on it, so that just left the badge that was yellow and had a great big happy smiley face on it, it was of the best items of treasure Plink ever found.   Plink knew it was perfect for a certain someone.  See Plink wasn’t greedy, he was a thoughtful little monster and gave his findings to people in the city who he felt needed cheering up.

Plink is a happy little guy.

He had his focus on one guy that he saw every morning walking past his alley.  The guy in question was Marley, he was 29 and lived in a small apartment in the middle of the city. He was really unlucky, this morning he burned his toast and knocked his coffee all over his new mobile phone, just another normal morning he thought as he tripped down the stairs on the way to work.  Marley worked countless hours for minimum wage in a rainbow paint factory his boss was called Tyson he was wicked and made Marley’s life a living hell by 
giving him the most demeaning jobs and abusing his power at every available opportunity. Marley hated it but jobs were scarce in the big city so he grinned and beared it. Plink knew this guy needed cheering up so Plink decided to leave some of his treasure for him and immediately thought of the special smiley badge , “YIP, YIP, YIP” yelped Plink.

So the next morning Plink watched intently from the entrance of his alley and waited for Marley to appear, as soon as he came around the corner Plink rushed out like lightening, left the badge right in Marley’s path and scurried right back to his box.

Marley saw the badge from the corner of his eye and bent down to pick it up “Wow” he said “that’s awesome, it must finally be my lucky day” he smiled as he pinned it to his shirt and for the first time in ages Marley felt on top of the world.  Although it was only a badge it put things in perspective for him, he decided to take charge of his life and stick up for himself.

That day at work he decided to tell his rogue boss Tyson exactly what he thought of him and stormed out of his job, that same day he went to the city university and enrolled on the ‘How to be a Zookeeper’ course he had always wanted to do and on the way home he past his favourite take away “Quan’s Taco Emporium” In the window there was a HELP WANTED sign, he hopingly went in to ask for a job and as Mr Quan knew him well he decided to give him a go.   Marley couldn’t believe his day he thought back to the morning and looked at his lapel, “my smiley badge, it really was lucky” he thought.  

Plink kept his eye out for Marley and saw him the very next day with his head held high and a super smile on his face, after Plink saw Marley, he scurried quickly back to his box and on the way, POP, POP, POP!!!! his tentacles sprung out with excitement, he spun round in circles “YIP, YIP” he squealed “Job done, time for a sleep” and continued back to his HI-FI back for another 40 winks

The End

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