GILLIGAN GETS BUGGED
Gilligan body tensed as the small bug landed on him. He didn't want to be bitten again, even if the annoying thing wasn't poisonous. The bug took off again without biting him, though, and then there was a popping sound.
"Skipper? Is it…?" he asked, even though he had a feeling it was.
"Yes, Gilligan. Exactly twenty-four hours after it bit you," the Skipper answered taking his hat off. He was saluting a bug? Gilligan stared at him, dumbfounded.
"Sk… Skipper… I…" he stuttered, suddenly feeling scared. He had killed the bug without touching it, was HE poisonous?
Skipper put his hat back on while Gilligan shook nervously.
"Gilligan, relax! Bugs don't…" But he couldn't finish the sentence. Gilligan jumped up out of the tub, stark naked. "Gilligan…" Skipper said his name slowly as not to alarm him, but Gilligan was in full scared mode and he jumped out of the tub and raced off; his "birthday suit" all aglow. The Skipper grabbed a towel and raced after him.
"Gilligan, stop! If anyone sees you…" he yelled, a little too late.
At the sight of the young man, Mary Ann shrieked, dropped the laundry and fainted.
Ginger came to see what the trouble was, but shut her eyes as she was the trouble. "Oh, Gilligan! Put your clothes on!" she scolded, throwing clothes at him blindly.
Gilligan, suddenly realizing he was naked, grabbed his shirt from the clothesline (still wet) and used it to cover his bottom half.
"Sorry, Ginger, I…" he started, but was too embarrassed to go on. He ran for his hut instead, covering himself best he could.
By then the Skipper had run up to where the women were, and stopped, out of breath. He knelt and helped Mary Ann, who was coming around.
"Skipper, you've got to do something about him!" Ginger said, fuming.
"Sorry, girls! It's my fault! That bug that was biting us bit the dust - and as a joke, I took my hat off and told Gilligan it died twenty-four hours after biting him," the Skipper explained.
He got a face full of wet socks as an answer.
"You… You…!" Ginger said, unsure of what insult to use, and the Skipper backed off as both girls picked up wet clothes and threw them at him. He ran for the hut and found Gilligan almost fully dressed.
"Oh, Skipper, I'm so embarrassed!" Gilligan cried.
The Skipper nodded. "Sorry, little buddy," he apologized, as their hut door flew open.
"You two are re-doing all that laundry! We spent all morning washing it, and now the clothes are filthy again!" Mary Ann said. Both thrust their armloads of clothes at the two and stormed off.
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It was a few hours later before the Skipper and Gilligan trudged back to camp where they were awarded the two smallest fish for dinner.
Gilligan climbed into his hammock an hour after that.
Dear Diary,
I didnt now bugs wer so dangeius. We thowt we was posined but prafeser sad wer not but then bug dyed and I got scard so I ran naked, I thenk the gerls are mad stell…
Gilligan