The five emotions were sitting around a table having a conversation with their tea while Olivia was sleeping.
"It's so annoying having to share one button. I wish we could have an actual control panel. Not the lame one we have now," Anger was saying in her usual, overly loud voice.
"I agree completely, I have to continuously press the same button all of you press. Has anyone ever heard of germs? Like, excuse me!" Disgust added.
"I'm always scared I'll get knocked down while trying to use the button. The only reason I use it is because I definitely can't let Olivia get hurt." Fear said with a quiver in her voice.
"I mean, I need more buttons to press, just one doesn't work for me." Disgust said.
"And maybe a few levers and wheels as well," Sadness said. "It makes me sad to only get to use one button."
"Well," Joy started in her usual upbeat way. "We can always contact the builders to upgrade our control panel."
"We can? You never told me!" Anger burst out.
"Sorry, I kind of forgot." Joy stated in an apologetic tone.
"Let's do that right now!" Disgust exclaimed picking up the phone that was hanging on the wall.
"Maybe first we should draw out a plan," Joy suggested as she pulled some paper out of a cupboard as well as pencils and pens.
"I guess that would be best," Sadness said as she set her tea on the ledge to grab a pencil.
Together, the emotions drew out a plan and then disgust called the builders who came and started to build the new control panel.
The next day, the control panel was ready. It was long and shiny, divided into five sections, one for each emotion. They each had a chair which they eagerly sat down on.
Joy looked down at her panel which had a wide mix of buttons, levers, wheels and much more that were all big and easy to use. As Olivia sat eating breakfast, Joy excitedly span one wheel and pressed a button.
Olivia giggled and spat out her mashed food by mistake.
Sadness sat on her chair and looked down at what she had. Since Sadness was not eager or excitable, all that it had was two levers, five buttons, a wheel and a crank. Sadness slid one of the levers.
Olivia cried and threw some of her food as far as she could, which was not very far.
Disgust examined hers very closely and she was excited to find out it was perfect for her. There were rows upon rows of tiny buttons, little levers, sliding valves and many more things all in tiny proportions as to fit everything she wanted. With a quick counts she found that there were more than one hundred-forty buttons and just under sixty levers as well as three hundred other varying devices. She squealed with delight and ran her finger across a series of buttons.
Olivia spat out the food she had in her mouth and started hitting the food on her plate.
Fear also had lots of small devices but they were all buttons. She had four hundred buttons that were all the exact same. That was exactly what she had wanted for the fear of accidentally messing up if she had other devices as well. He reached to push a button then decided against it, there was no danger currently for Olivia, in less the food was poisonous. He pressed the button just in case.
Olivia pushed the food on her plate as far away from her as she could.
Anger, like Sadness, had few devices because she preferred to just slam her hand on a button or angrily pull a crank. She slammed a hand on a big button.
Olivia slammed her hands against the plastic plate which sent it flying a few feet away.