Disclaimer: I do not own Courage the Cowardly Dog.
The old man stood at the desk typing on the computer. "Hm…I wonder how much the new iPods costs…$299.95?! Who do they think they're selling to? George Clooney? Well I'll give them a piece of my mind…by sending an angry e-mail!" Just as he sends the e-mail Courage rushed in the store.
"Why hello Courage! Come back to buy something decent?"
"un…no, I…" Courage began but the old man cut him off.
"Oh I knew it was too good to be true." The old man said while heading back to his desk.
"un…like I was saying, I need to find a ring, a blue ring to, un reverse the spell." Courage said in a low tone trying to get his point out. "So do you have it?"
The old man looked down at Courage like he was crazy then sighed. "It's on the shelves but I don't remember which one. Well excuse me I have to go in the back for a minute, I'll be back." Courage looked at the rest of the store and saw 50 rows of shelves with about 20 gifts on one side of each shelf.
"Oh boy." Courage sighed as he started the first row. Courage picked up the first gift and shook it when it made a noise. "High score!" Courage was puzzled and shook it again. "Double High score!" Courage grew frustrated and put it down when it yelled, "Sorry you lose!" Courage suddenly threw it out the window when it yelled, "Triple High score!" Courage got the second one then the third and so on. When the old man returned he saw half his store gone.
"What happened here?" The old man said to Courage.
"un…I threw it all out the window." Courage said in a weak voice. When the old man looked out the window and saw lots of people and homeless people rushing to grab the gifts.
"un Courage, can you hold on for a moment?" Then the old man grabbed a broom and rushed outside. Courage stayed inside and heard lots of people screaming and yelling. He heard the old man yell, "Get back you animals! Oh yeah? You wish you had a life! Get Back!" Courage saw lots of gifts pushed back through the window and fell on the floor. Courage then saw the old man come back in with the broom. He noticed the broom had red stains on it. The old man noticed Courage staring at the broom. "Courage it's not what it looks like. Luckily someone was eating French fried smothered in ketchup." Courage sighed in relief. "Trust me you don't know how wild these people can get for free stuff! By the way why did you throw everything out the window?"
"Everything I touched said High score and didn't stop until I threw it." The old man looked down at Courage and went to his desk just to pull out a similar gift.
"Here, go ahead and cure Muriel. You have 2 hours left." The old man looked down at Courage just to see a blank face. "Ok you got me. Yes, I'm Santa! Go ahead and tell everyone."
"No it's not that…you had the cure all this time!" Courage said the frustration.
"un yes." The old man said showing the gift.
"I can't believe this! Why didn't you give it to me earlier!?"
"What? It was meant to be a joke, who says Santa can't have a good sense of humor?" The old man said returning to his desk. "I don't have to give this to you, you know." Courage also didn't want to argue anymore.
"Fine…Santa, I'm sorry so can I have the gift?" Courage said as the old man sat at his desk.
"Sure Courage…only that'll be $29.95, not including tax."
"What? Santa can't you make an exception?" The old man looked down at Courage.
"No offence Courage, but I'm running a business here and not a lot of people are buying Mrs. Claus's cookies now days." The old man said while taking a bite of a cookie.
"Fine." Courage said putting the money on the counter and grabbing the gift. "but I'm asking for twice as much next year!" Courage said running out of the store. "Now I just have to get home before it's too late!"