One day our monkey came across some monkeys with more bananas than they could eat doing what most monkeys do when they have more bananas than they can eat: taunting and laughing at the bananaless monkeys.

Even though he wasn't hungry, our monkey was now driven to possess what he didn't have. His every attempt to reach the bananas failed. Along came a bird.

Our monkey tried to talk the bird into doing his dirty work for him. While the bird was refusing, our monkey wondered what kind of hollow sound his stick would make upon contact with the bird's head.

The bird gave our monkey no choice but to enslave it. The bird tried to explain how our monkey had no right to do this, but our monkey was certain he had every right to do whatever he needed considering his desperate bananaless situation.

The next part happened so fast our monkey didn't really know what happened. Somehow, the bird talked our monkey into letting him go in exchange for an apparent magic feather. The bird then stole the bananas from all monkeys present and departed for parts unknown.

Our monkey chased the thieving bird, waving his apparent magic feather in rage.

Proving that only poor decision-making can result from being in a state of rage and desperation, our monkey decided to use the apparent magic feather to chase the bird. Because his eyes were locked shut in intense concentration, he was unaware that the feather clearly a non-magical item. The bird returned from parts unknown.

The bird caught our monkey, saving him from his inevitably fatal maiden flight, while our undeserving monkey was certain his magic feather was responsible for his keeping him aloft.

When our monkey finally opened his eyes, he was safely back on land with the coveted bananas at his feet. He credited the magic feather.

Retuning to his village, our monkey shared his tale of the magic feather's heroism with his monkey friends and acquantances, while also sharing the coveted bananas. We can only hope that our monkey learned some kind of lesson about taunting or enslavement or magical items, although it's more likely that he perished later that day during another attempted magic feather flight. I'm sure he will be missed by friends and family.