The Mardi Gras Celebration in Animalia was similar to last year's celebration, in that there was a parade, fast-paced samba music, and the occasional confetti cannon. There were also the various half-price conversions available, but the most amusing things happening was the many epic relationship fails that were either seen around town and/or caught on film.
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One guy came out of a "fancy" Italian restaurant looking as though he had just had a large plateful of spaghetti thrown at him. His date, a female robin Animalian followed behind him looking rather angry. As they passed the cashier, she said to him, at his look, "I'm not sure why some people think it's funny to talk about worms while you're trying to eat spaghetti."
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Another really amusing thing that happened was three stereotypical "frat boys" were supposed to meet their blind dates. When they saw that their dates were two feet taller than them and at least two hundred pounds of muscle heavier than they were, their reactions were priceless.
"Doigh! Derp! Gah!" said one of them, not knowing what else to say from shock.
"Ai Carumba!" said a second, stunned beyond belief.
"Waiter, check please." said the third, who went to the local community college, and was a bit more used to it than the other two.
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"YOW! COLD!" said one guy running down the street while doing a strange-looking dance.
"Some sleaze-ball tried to hit on Marcy." Explained Chilly later, "But instead of responding with violence, I shoved a large pawful of half-melted snow down the front of his pants."
"That's one way of doing it." answered the APD officer who was investigating.
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Many other incidents were actually common examples of "open-mouth-insert-foot-bite-yourself-in-the-butt" while others were more like irritating uplifted Animalians with negative stereotypes about their species by idiots. Fortunately, we won't injure pride anymore than we did already.