Monkey Business

This is a true story that was relayed to a group of people at a party by Ani.

Yesterday, I was sleeping on my couch and the front door to the house was opened. When I opened my eyes, there were two monkeys in front of me, a big one and a small one. I jumped up and tried to startle them by yelling and jumping towards them. The small one ran out of the house, but the bigger one stayed and motioned back at me. I was worried that he was going to charge at me and bite me and I didn't have anything to defend myself with.

Then, another monkey came from the kitchen, and they two of them left the house together.

My dad heard me from the backyard and came to ask what was going on. I told him that there had been monkeys in the house. He went outside and saw a few monkeys sitting on the roof of the house. One of our neighbors was there and said that some monkeys had taken bananas from her house and they must be eating them now on our roof.

Once back inside our house, my dad and I were talking and my mom came into the room. She asked where the bunch of bananas that had been in the kitchen were. We replied, the monkeys must have gotten then.

Although it might not seem believable (it took me several hours to be convinced), it is true and I'm slowly learning that monkeys are a big problem in Delhi. I've even heard some crazy stories about monkeys riding buses and drinking whiskey.
Morale: Close your front door when you are sleeping so the monkeys can't get in.
Ancillary morale: If you do leave your door open and monkeys get in, have some bananas for them. That's all the want.