Life of a Cucumber
My life started out just like most other plants...
as a seed.
I was happy hanging out with my friends and family in our nice paper home until it was ripped apart one day. This huge thing reached into our home and plucked out my best friend. He went screaming. It didn't help any though as the thing that plucked us out of our home seemed to ignore our screams as though it could not hear us.
We were pushed into the dirt and covered completely. UGH!! I can't breath nor see anything anymore. Where is everyone? I can't even hear them anymore. What am I supposed to do?
I settle down to die. Alone, scared, and thinking to myself that I am way too young to die. Wait, I'm getting wet. How is that possible? I thought I was dying. What is happening to me? My shell is coming apart. That's it. I'm dying. What an awful way to die.
Hold on. I'm not dying. I have something strange coming out of my shell. What is this? How could this be possible? I thought I was dying. I have long green tendrils coming up through the ground. Is it possible that I'm growing? But what am I? Am I great mighty oak, or a wonderfully large redwood?
I am starting to sprout some type of.. thing. HOLD ON! I'm a cucumber. There are the rest of my friends and family. They didn't die either. There is my best friend. He is right by me. There's my mom, dad, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa and everyone else. How can I tell who is who, you ask? How can you tell who your friends and family are? You just know.
I live in this wonderful place growing and getting baths from the sky and lay around naked enjoying the sun. Wow, what a life. This is what I was meant to do. As much as I hated being separated from my family and friends and shoved into the dirt, it was all worth it now. Just to be able to see everyone again and live like this is wonderful.
Wait, what's happening now? I am being plucked off the green tendrils and shoved into a basket. What's going to happen to us now? We are all being plucked and shoved on top of each other. Hold on, wait I can't swim. I am being dumped into a large container and water is being dumped on us. I am stuck on the bottom. I can't get to the top to even get a breath of air. How am I going to survive? Stop!! Something slimy just brushed against me. Please tell me it's not a snake. I hate snakes.
Now they are putting something on top to block out the sun. What is happening? Where are they taking us? We are doomed. I just know we are all going to die now. All that fun in the sun and for what? Nothing. We were just being teased and now they are going to kill us for sure.
I'm going to get sick. I can't breathe, see, and now the water is moving around. What is a cucumber to do? Unfortunately, I don't even have a mouth to get sick from. I can't see where we are not but finally the water stopped moving for a bit. Off comes the top and we can finally see the sun again. But that doesn't last for long, we are all being dumped out of the water and onto something that moves.
We finally get to dry out some. Who is grabbing me now? What are they doing to me? OUCH!! What did they put me in now? I can see through whatever it is but we are so crowded in here. I can't.. move. Stop nobody else can fit in here. Take him out. He's too fat. She smells funny. STOP!
EWWW! What is that? I thought she smelt funny what is that funny smelling water you are putting on us? Why does it burn? I don't like this. Now they are putting another type of top on the see through container. Take it off, I want out.
Can someone read what that paper says? P. I. C. K. L. E. What is that? I thought I was a cucumber. Now they say I am something else. I am so confused.