Page 7 - FS-Chocolate Festival

You know, it is funny how we get it in our head that something should be this way that way without every asking WHY? We forget to ask, “Does this make any sense?”
I am always asking the other crows, “Why do we fly up off the pavement every time a car drives by, just to immediately fly back down to our snack after it has passed? Why not just walk to the curb and cut out all that flying stuff?”
They always say, “That is just the way we have always done it.”
Well I can tell you, Squiggy’s refusal to eat any chocolate caused quite a commotion. He was different from the others and this seemed to upset a lot of those in the colony. Now I am the kind of crow that likes to know what is going on. So, I told my cousins I was going to hang around nearer the squirrel colony to see what might happen.
Later in the day several of the other squirrels were discussing Squiggy’s refusal to participate in the festival. “You know what this will cause?” said Red Tail. “It will cause our trees to be cursed and they will bear fewer nuts, if any nuts at all. This will mean a very hard winter for us and many of us might die.”
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