A Delicious Adventure

by Bruce Grimes

Two apes, Randy and Doug, escaped from Africa and stowed away on an airplane to California. There, they went  into a pizza restaurant, dressed up like humans, to apply for jobs. They wanted to earn $1,000 to $1,200 to donate to a homeless shelter and to Feed My Starving Children. 

Jill the restaurant owner took one look at their strong arms and said, “You can probably throw pizza crusts like pros! You’re hired!” Randy and Doug made extra-large pizzas so fast and so delicious that people crowded to the restaurant to taste them. They started to get inventive with their flavors: They made cheeseburger pizza and steak pizza. Delicious! Customers wanted more.

Then Doug and Randy invented fruit pizza with bananas, strawberries and grapes. The customers loved it! Jill tripled the prices of the fruit pizzas because the customers loved them so much. 

She gave Doug and Randy a bonus of $1,100. Jill said, “You guys have been great for business. Thank you so much for bringing in new customers.”

The restaurant had been on the TV show “Bar Rescue” and the host John Tapper tried to improve the business. It turns out that the apes, Doug and Randy, did a much better job!
“You’re welcome!” they told Jill. “We’re going to turn this into more money.” They bought a lottery ticket that won $1 million. Wow! They gave most of it to the homeless shelter and Feed My Starving Children, and then they used the rest to buy a car with airplane controls that could fly. 

They flew to Minnesota and went to another restaurant there, the Chinese Buffet. They asked for jobs there so they could earn even more money for the causes they wanted to support.
“We’ll work overnight and stay out of trouble,” Randy and Doug told the restaurant manager, Andrew. 

“Please clean and wash everything in the whole restaurant,” Andrew said. “And do snow removal.”

They did triple the work that Andrew asked for. With their long arms and strong muscles, they could reach all the way up to the ceiling and in all the corners. They cleaned the whole place until it sparkled.

Andrew was so happy that Doug and Randy did such a great job. “Now I don’t have to hire a cleaning crew for a whole month,” he said. Andrew donated all the money they earned to Feed My Starving Children. 

“Will you please come back again?” he asked. But Randy and Doug said no. “We’ve got to go to the Minnesota Zoo. We’ve always wanted to live there.”

Before they left, Doug and Randy threw Andrew a birthday party. He was turning 100 years old! They served beer and wine, ice cream and chocolate cake . . . and fruit pizza.
It was a delicious adventure.