The boy had not been sleeping well.
He’d outgrown his soft toys, and was well into attending preschool, but regardless of this, his parents decided to get him something that would be of comfort to him at night. It was a large, softly stuffed chimpanzee. He was pleased enough when they gave it to him. There suggestion that he could cuddle up with it at night was appealing. However this only lasted for a couple of nights before his mother noticed bags under his eyes the next morning. It was her view that he was looking even more tired than before. Anyway, he seemed to go off to school without any real drama. It was later that morning that she found the monkey under his bed with sticky tape across its mouth.
When they were all back home together his parents questioned him about it. He explained that he wasn’t able to get off to sleep because from the very start the monkey had done nothing but go on about Darwin’s theory of evolution. He told them that it said it has issues with it. He said that it kept going on about how natural selection is grossly overrated as a means of survival. He thought it was quite interesting at first, but after half an hour he just couldn’t shut him up!
Some issues just never seem to go away…