DUCKS
By Dan Johnson, 2001
Characters:
Dad Duck
Son Duck
EXT. NICE WETLANDS AREA DAY
A father sits smoking a pipe and reading a paper. His son walks up.
SON
Dad? I'm confused.DAD
Well what's on your mind son?SON
In the fall we're going to fly south, right?DAD
That's right son!SON
Why?DAD
Ah the grand migration! It's an awesome spectacle. We'll travel in a huge V formation to go south where it'll be warm for us during the winter.SON
Ya, I know all that. But why not stop every once in awhile on the way there?DAD
Well all summer long we get strong and store up lots of fat to give us energy! When I was your age my friends and I used to spend hours flying all over so on migration we were the first there!SON
Ya, fine. But wouldn't it be easier just to stay down there? Not traveling twice a year would enable us to cut nutrient consumption during the summer by up to 50% thereby increasing livable wetland areas by the same percentage.DAD
Well…well that's just not the way we do it!!SON
It just seems inanely stupid to fly well over 3000 miles just to turn around and fly back a few months later!DAD
...Uhm...SON
And why do we always follow the same trans-migratory routes which are well known by everyone including those excruciatingly angry hunters waiting to blast us out of the sky?DAD
All right that's enough of that talk! If it was good enough for your grandpa, one of the finest ducks ever to be hatched in this pond, it's good enough for you!SON
Dad, didn't grandpa got shot when he landed on a stupid decoy....DAD
Uhm, that's right...SON
Grandma says he was trying to mess around with a young hen!DAD
That's it! Get to your room! I won't listen to that garbage in this pond!SON
But Dad!?DAD
GET!The son leaves dejectedly. The dad picks up his paper.
DAD
Kids.END
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