Two onions, male and female, knock into each other on the street...

...An affair begins. Onion romance has occurred.

They tie the knot; several months later they have a baby onion.

Father onion takes another shift to make ends meet.

Mother onion is encumbered with house work one day, much distracted.

Baby onion wanders out the open door unsupervised. It crosses the sidewalk and is hit by a car.

At the hospital mother and father onion pace up and down the hospital corridor, crying.

A team of surgeons try all night to save baby onion's life.

Towards dawn the doors to the hospital room open. A doctor walks out, sweating.

Father onion asks "well, what, how is baby onion?"

The surgeon says "well he'll live, but I'm afraid he'll be a vegetable for the rest of his life."