In the Hundred Acre Wood.

The assorted members of the Hundred Acre Wood are standing outside Winnie’s house. There is a lot of screaming and shouting inside, along with breaking furniture and shattering crockery. Worst off all, it seems to be coming from two very distinctly different voices.


Concerned, Rabbit looks to those around him and asks, “Will anybody go inside and see what all that noise is about?” Tigger immediately throws up a paw and bounds through the door before another word is said. When he comes out, he’s very, very pale. Rabbit asks him what he saw. He won’t answer. Instead, he sits on a log and stares ahead, eyes focused somewhere miles away.


Rabbit asks again if anyone is willing to see what’s going on in there, as the shouting still hasn’t stopped yet. If anything, it’s gotten even louder. Nervously, Piglet offers up a hand and creeps through the door. When he comes back, he’s also gone very pale and sits down beside Tigger before breaking out into inconsolable tears. All that can be made out through his sobbing is the words “Christopher Robin”. Rabbit, sweating bullets, asks if anyone else would like to try. The screaming in the house is building to a very definite crescendo now. With a sigh, Eeyore stands up and shuffles morosely inside.


A few seconds later, the screaming has stopped. The silence is almost deafening. Rabbit is about to ask again if anyone will look inside, when the door opens and Eeyore walks out, none the worse for wear except for a stench wafting off him that Rabbit cannot place. Eeyore walks over to the log and sits on it, nibbling on a stalk of grass as he chuckles softly to himself.


Rabbit, extremely disturbed, sidles as close as the horrible odor wafting off Eeyore will allow and asks, “Is everyone alright? What was that about?”


Eeyore chuckles again, chews the blade of grass thoughtfully a couple moments longer, then says, “Yeah, everyone’s fine.” He glances at his two neighbors, still emotionally shattered, and snorts. “Don’t see what all the fuss was about. You act like you’ve never seen a fella taking a Pooh before.”