A Mime in a Zoo
One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn
some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a
crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo
keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a
gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at
the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the
gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.
So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the
cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He
can sleep all he wants, play and make
fun of people and he draws
bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the
crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He begins
to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in
the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his
audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a
partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course,
this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise
for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time,
the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his
salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over
the furious lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified.
The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared
that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close
behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, Help
me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself
flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion
says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"
Mime In The Zoo
