When I arrived we did the annual Easter type things. We made Easter baskets for my niece. A trip was made to local green house to buy plants for a flower garden. And we went grocery shopping where while in line my niece asked a random elderly woman if she was her grandma. In case you were wondering, she was not.
All these activities are fine, but I was looking forward to the annual Easter Egg Hunt the town holds each year on a long abandoned mine field. I had been practicing my new egg grabbing technique: tuck, roll, grab egg and flip back to my feet. Ninjas everywhere eat your hearts out, because ready is an understatement for what I was.
I told my mom I would make my family proud and bring home like 80% of the eggs. You could call it my own personally Hunger Games, except I haven't seen the movie so I really wouldn't know. Sounds about right though. Without a word, my mom picked up a newspaper article she had cut out and handed it to me.
Confusion swept over me, and this unexplainable feeling of dread. Taking a deep breath I started reading the article. I don't think I even made it passed the first line before I felt my heart drop. The Headline read, "Easter Egg Hunt Cancelled: Renegade Bunnies Target Egg Hunts".
The article went on describe the story of three cute bunnies who were attending the University of Easter and Peeps. These three bunnies were on the fast track to working in the field as actual Easter Bunnies. The story takes a dark turn when it was discovered the three bunnies had been taking experimental performance enhancing drugs. Furious and embarrassed the university expelled the three bunnies who upon leaving the grounds swore their revenge. It's not certain if it was the drugs or they were over taken by then evil within, but the three cute bunnies had become as ugly on the outside as they were on the inside.
True to their word, the now three evil bunnies were disrupting and attacking people at Easter Egg Hunts all over the world. In Chicago, a woman related the story of how one of the evil bunnies started breaking Easter eggs over her husbands head while another evil bunny shook its butt in his face.
Due to the actions of these evil bunnies, Easter Egg Hunts everywhere had been cancelled. It sort of sucks that there will be no Easter Egg Hunt, but I'm sure we will find something else to do as a family. There's always the game of how many jelly beans a person can fit up their nose. It's kind of cool, because no matter whether you win or lose, for the next week every time you sneeze it looks like a rainbow in your Kleenex.
So, while other plans are already being made, I kind of can't help but wonder what kind of pressure society is putting on these Easter-Bunnies-in Training. Is the school just that strict or is it that Johnny-Down-the-Street needed one too many chocolate covered bunnies. definitely something to think about.
