When you wake up, you find a pair of shiny plastic yellow flippers next to your bed. They must be a gift, you assume. After all, just about everyone knows that you like swimming. No doubt that most of the people you know would know you'd appreciate something like this.
You fiddle absent-mindedly at the flippers in an attempt to get them on your feet while you wonder about who bought these for you and why. You're so lost in thought that you fail to notice that these flippers lack the straps that come standard on most. You're so busy trying to think what holidays are happening right now that you don't feel how malleable these flippers are, how little they're like the touch of plastic. Finally, as you ponder about who you know that'd just spontaneously buy you a gift like this, you completely miss the loud latex squeak the flippers emit as you pull them snuggly onto each foot, covering your feet up until right before they hit your ankles.
However, as you abandon that line of thought, you realize how odd these flippers seem to be. You try to take them off so you can get a closer look, but find that you can't. No matter how hard you pull, they simply refuse to let go of your feet. Puzzled, you give them a good hard look, only to see that they aren't plastic flippers at all! No, these are latex costume duck feet that are stuck on your own!