Three Turtles

Three turtles, Joe, Steve, and Poncho, decide to go on a picnic.
So, Joe packs the picnic basket with cookies, bottled sodas, and
sandwiches. The trouble is, the picnic site is, 10 miles away,
so the turtles take 10 whole days to get there.


By the time they do arrive, everyone's whipped. Joe takes the
stuff out of the basket, one by one. He takes out the sodas and
says, 'Alright, Steve, gimme the bottle opener


"I didn't bring the bottle opener," Steve says. "I thought you
packed it." Joe gets worried. He turns to Poncho. "Poncho, do
you have the bottle opener?"


Naturally, Poncho doesn't have it, so the turtles are stuck ten
miles away from home without soda.


Joe & Steve beg Poncho to turn back home and retrieve it, but
Poncho flatly refuses, knowing that they'll eat everything by
the time he gets back.


Somehow, after about two hours, the turtles manage to convince
Poncho to go, swearing on their great-grand turtles' graves that
they won't touch the food.


So, Poncho sets off down the road, slow and steadily. Twenty
days pass, but no Poncho. Joe and Steve are hungry and puzzled,
but a promise is a promise. Another day passes, and still no
Poncho, but a promise is a promise.


After three more days pass without Poncho in sight, Steve starts
getting restless."I NEED FOOD!" he says with a hint of dementia
in his voice.


"NO!" Joe retorts. "We promised." Five more days pass. Joe
realizes that Poncho probably skipped out to the Burger King
down the road, so the two turtles weakly lift the lid ,get a
sandwich, and open their mouths to eat. But then, right at that
instant, Poncho pops out behind a rock, and says, "Just for
that, I'm not going."