Jeff had to spend the next 20 hours in complete misery, boredom, and utter restrictiveness. But the end, it finally did come. The chronivac was finally down to its last ten minutes.
In relief the following day, and in anticipation of becoming human again, Jeff decided to work himself back up into a frenzy. One last time of jerking hinself off as a smelly, dirty old donkey.
Within five minutes, he made yet another large sticky yellowish-white pond on his bedroom floor. Five minutes after that, his entire room started glowing. He found himself uncomfortably on his....HANDS and knees! Buck naked!
He slowly stood back up, his brain in total and complete relief. Super happy about having his precious fingers back. Looking around, there was no mess! The machine even agreeably cleaned his room for him as if nothing happened!
Laughing, he went back over to the chronivac with a vague disappointment that it was all finally over.
"A donkey!" he scoffed to himself. "Why in the hell did i want to be THAT for a day?"
"Why not try it out for longer...?" a thought came unbidden to his mind.
"Well, I COULD do it..." he thought. He walked over to the machine, heart all-aflutter. The thought of being trapped as a donkey for a day worried him. The thoyght of being trapped like that for longer, terrified him. The thought of permsnantly being stuck as one, an utter nightmare.
He ran around and unplugged the cursed machine from the wall. He put it in the back of his closet, and thats where it stayed for quite a while.