Hippo Was Hungry …[ Humor/Humour; Food; Hippopotamus; Shopping; Short; Inspired By My Growling Belly! ] Poem by Bri Edwards
Hippo Was Hungry …[ Humor/Humour; Food; Hippopotamus; Shopping; Short; Inspired By My Growling Belly! ]
I was shopping at the grocery store when in walked a hippopotamus.
It was my first time seeing a ‘hippo' there, and management made such a fuss!
They checked first to see if it'd tracked in river mud ….or something WORSE.
AND they watched to see if Miss Hippo would put a watermelon in her purse.
[She didn't.]
As she was so HUGE, they put the bakery on alert, assuming she ate pies.
They put the lunch counter on alert, assuming she ate LOTS of French fries.
But she passed by the bakery, the lunch counter, and meat and dairy sections,
preferring to browse the produce displays, picking her fruit and veggie selections.
She held up and examined a bunch of grapes; she gulped down two or three.
I don't mean two or three GRAPES.I mean two or three BUNCHES, ….with glee.
Into her cart** went 3 cases of grapes, then carrots [a hundred pound bag].
The steel grocery cart began to groan; its ‘basket' began to sag.
Potatoes, squash, beets, all sorts of "greens"; 100 pounds of cabbage [for sauerkraut].
As she wheeled her purchases to her truck, a NEW sign in produce said: "ALL SOLD OUT".
(October 28,2017)
**in U.K., "trolley"
bri :)
p.s. I saw a video of a wild hippo (in Africa)eating a mammal at night near water; I'm not sure if the hippo killed the mammal.The video was supposed to be evidence that hippos don't eat JUST plants.
I can picture this healthy hippo and the shocked look on the cashier's face. Love the idea of a shoplifting hippo putting a melon in her purse and the sagging basket.
as always Bri, what's in the poem is more vital than what's in the title
again, PH seems to be removing the spaces i leave between sentences and between the day's date and year's date. hmm? ! oh well. the site STILL is free for me! ! ! bri :) :) bri
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I would like to translate this poem
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5/1/2024 4:10:46 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Very funny, Bri! Did you see a large woman in the store that give you the idea...? Thank you for the U.K. Trolley. Amazon.com has done quite a good job of educating us, though, with Add to your cart... A hippo eating another animal? Really? They certainly do kill other animals, but I hadn't heard of them eating meat. Have you read my Gentle Giant?