Sounds as if the Hive is full of sleepyheads...
When I walked over to the Hive yesterday, I ran into Big Foot. He was sitting just outside the entryway with his proboscis buried in a book. I asked him what he was doing and he said, “Catching up on my reading. I fell beehind while I was asleep.”
Then he looked up at me and said, “Oh. It’s you. You’re back? Did you hear about the thing with the Queen?”
“Yes,” I said, “yes, and yes.”
“I heard the campaigns for a new Queen will bee underway soon,” he told me. “Everybody’s still pretty upset over how greedy and insensitive our previous Queen had beecome, so they don’t want to make the same mistake twice.”
“Probably a good idea,” I said. “We don’t need another Greedy Queen.”
“No, we certainly do not,” BigFoot said, then went back to reading his book, “Media Manipulation Techniques for Successful Empire-Building, Volume 2: The Art of the Schtump Speech”, by Daniel Schtump. (It looked pretty boring to me, even though BigFoot said it was a “tremendous, tremendous read”.) Whatever.
Just about then, I heard the sound of an alarm clocking going off. A few seconds later, Rudy came kinda staggering out of the Hive wearing an elegantly simple chenille bathrobe and asked, “What day ith it?”
“It’s Tuesday,” Bigfoot and I said at the same time.
“Hoiiii,” Rudy said. “It’th too thoon. I’m going back to bed.”
Then he went back inside. I guess I don’t have much more to say about that.
Anyway, I asked BigFoot if he wanted to maybee play a game of Parcheesi, but he told me no thanks, that he had to finish rest of the chapter he was on (“Outrageous Beehaviour”), then go wax his book case.
“It’s gotten terribly dull-looking,” he said.
So, my visit to the Hive yesterday turned out to bee pretty boring. Almost everybody I know in the Hive is still asleep. That’s a genuine pity. They’re really missing out on this nice weather we’ve been having lately.
I hope they wake up soon, so I can finally start working on that Special Community Involvement Project I’ve been thinking about doing during the Warm and Hot and Cool Seasons. But I don’t have time to discuss that at the moment. Right now, I hafta go work on Part 16 of my story, “The Bee Who Knew Too Much”, which I’ll bee sharing with everybody tomorrow. I know you’re excited. Probably.
I hope everybody has a monumentally gratifying day!
I’ll see ya’ later!