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1) There was this very hairy man who strangely dyed his hair purple.................It was about 11:30 in the morningwhen Grince’s Gambling buddy Drake came by and it did not go well a visit. Immediately Grince took to a posture of an argument and it revolved around his conga drums. Grince: Look, I don’t want much of anything at all this Christmas. I just want my conga drums back. Drake: I don’t think I can do that. You forfeited those conga drums in order to pay your poker debt. Grince: Did you hear what I said. Than what are you here for? Drake: I wanted to ask you what you would like for Christmas. Grince: I want my conga drums back. Drake: I can’t do that. What else can I do for you? Grince: I want my conga drums back. Drake: Not gonna happen. No can do. Grince: I want my conga drums back, Dammit. I just want my conga drums!!! Drake stood for a moment, thinking to himself what in the world was going through Grince’s mind. Drake: Look, I call you later. Think of something else! Grince: There is nothing else. I want my drums back!!! I just want my drums back. Drake, shook his head and left.
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2) The next morning Grince woke up a little more hung over than usual. He jettisoned himself to his pack of cigarettes and realized that he was out of smokes. Without taking a shower, he threw on some clothes and walked a half mile to the convenience store before this spector looking like military police appeared and called Grince out by name. He introduced himself as the ghost of Christmas past. Ghost: Grince do you see what is going on around you these days? You need to see what is going on around you. Grince: Do I know you? He Turned towards the door of the store as a man came out who grince walked into and knocked the strange man’s coffee out of his hand. Customer: Hey, why don’t you watch where you’re going, are you stupid or something?! Grince walked into the store. It took no more than a minute to come out with his fresh cigarette’s and he immediately lit one up while the stranger he bumped into stood there screaming about his coffee and looking for some compensation. Grince kept on walking. Meanwhile the spector repeatedly asked if Grince had any real idea of what was going on around him while he continued to follow Grince. no one else could see him as he demanded Grince stop and think for a moment. Grince told the spector to shut up.
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3) It was at a local bar where Grince and a lot of acquaintances that were almost on the verge of what you would call broken friendships were, that the spector calling himself the Ghost of Christmas past really started to get on Grinces nerves. Grince kept telling him constantly to shut up. Asking him several times how the hell he knew Grince. Grince’s greatest reason for the nights outing was to accompany his girlfriend to her friend’s rock band. A band that Grince himself thought of as incredibly boring. This became the major reason for what broke out between him and his girlfriend as a fight. They quibbled for hours as her friend’s band went through three set’s. Mostly though, the Military cop who sat there as a hologram nursed someone else’s untouched beer. The ghost asked Grince one last time before the nights end. “Do you see what is going on around you Grince? Grince’s only reply was to tell the ghost “Shutup”!!!!!
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4) The next night Grince and his gambling buddy’s were over despite the question of the drums and his friends brought over a friend of their's who Grince did not know but did not have a problem having in his home at the first of the night. But Grince got a little too drunk, and started to lose too much of the allotted five dollars for their nights session of fun. To Grince mostly, it was far more about losing as a matter of ego than the small amount of money he and his friends usually put at stake. Then, at the end of one hand of poker, Grince who swore to all that he would win that round lost to the newly introduced stranger and slammed his fist on the table. Grince: Are you cheating me? You have marked cards? The stranger was astonished and quiveringly stated back. Stranger: No! Just look at the cards man? The ghost looked on. Grince removed himself from the table at that point until the rest of his friends had finished up their game. The ghost followed stating “You really need to wake up here Grince. I’d tell you what was happening here and why but you seem really broken right now, and you keep telling me to shut up.” Grince could only reply back with stating “Shut up”!!!! The party eventually broke up and his friends left and Grince went to sleep. Drunk!!!
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5)) Grince was woken up in the morning by a spector, who had called himself the ghost of Christmas present. The ghost told Grince that he needed to come with the military cop. He shouted like a drill sgt. And although Grince had questions on his mind like, What are you doing in my home he did not bother to argue with the military cop. He felt more like he was being arrested than to put up a fight. The ghost, who looked more like a hologram, once again took Grince to three events of the past, but none of which involved Grince as a participant. The Ghost’s only words that he would utter were that everything that happens was without question terrible. The first thing that Grince was to view was his girlfriend in another man’s arms in bed just three years ago on Christmas Eve. They fell to sleep with one another professing their love for one another, and that together they would find a way for the both of them to rid themselves of Grince. Grince asked “Do I really have to see this”? But the ghost said nothing.
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6) The next event seen was Christmas Eve just two years before the present. Grince’s girlfriend Linda was at a party of her rock band friends with her new love interest whose name was Brent. Quite out of the blue Brent gifted her with a brand new brass flute that she had been dying for as she was a bit of a musician herself. Everyone was surprised and jovial about the gesture. Except for one lady named Tonka. She was a very old friend of Grince from early childhood who Grince had not seen in 28 years. And although she had a loyalty to Linda due to High School Marching band her loyalty to Grince could not be broken, as it became apparent for the first time what it was that Linda was doing with Brent. The party laughed and joked through the night. Tonka left; disgusted, and Grince cried with the Ghost.
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7) The next event that the ghost had taken Grince to was just one Christmas Eve before the present. Tonka had gone over to Linda’s. She was going to set linda straight. It first started with a verbal fight and for most of the time it seemed like tonka had to fight Grince off just to keep herself off of Linda. It became clear that what was going on between Linda and Brent was going on for years. Linda was sniffing lines of cocaine just minutes within Tonka arriving. Push came to shove and tonka could not contain herself and slapped Linda in the face. This did not in the end faze Linda in the least as Grince witnessed Linda getting on the phone with no remorse whatsoever and continue to conspire for money. Grince was shocked, and asked for the Army trooper to take him from these sights. By the time Grince got home it was midnight.
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8) In the morning, what looked like the same Military cop was next to Grince on his sofa. The MP told him when he awoke that he needed to come with the spector. As he was the ghost of Christmas future. Given that yesterdays event was still fresh in his mind he did not put up a fight. The time in which they visited was just 20 days before Christmas one year from the present, and despite Grince's best efforts will have no power in which to stop such events. Save one. The further escalation of the conflict, as the feud that was going on was not likely to stop. Grince on this event watched two men, and a third man behind his desk.The two in front of the desk were the best friends to Brent! Their names were Sigmund and Jafar. They stood in Brent’s office with a sack of 10lbs. of marijuana. The intended buyer was Tonka’s boyfriend. Brent had given them specific instructions. If anything goes wrong Grince is to take the rap. Brent was going to get rid of Grince. Quite frankly he could not understand Linda’s loyalty to Grince. He stated that even the flute in which he gave her was never touched by linda. The two men left and grince and the MP went on to view the next prophesy.
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9) The MP took Grince to his friend Tonka’s. The two goons were there along with Tonka’s boyfriend three days after the 10lbs. of marijuana was sold. Her boyfriend was to distribute it from buyer to buyer. The two nut’s Sigmund and Jafar shot and killed her boyfriend for passing them counterfeit bills for the exchange and took what remains of the marijuana they could find. They warned Tonka extremely who did not recognize the two goons not to be so smart as to call the police too soon, As they needed to make their getaway. So she cried helplessly alone in front of her own flute that she did not even recognize was there, and it was strange, it felt as though Grince’s hand was upon her to comfort her. The MP stated, for all intensive purposes, there is nothing much the police are going to find of this event. Not even the gun they left has prints. Grince: You can take me to the past, just as the other ghost did right? MP: Yes. Grince: Can I grab that flute? MP: yes. So Grince grabbed the flute, three days before the event, at the event of the original sale, then the two time travelers went to three years before, at the event of purchase of Linda's flute: followed brent to the store where he hed bought the flute for linda three christmas’s ago, and swaped them.
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10) Epilogue: Time had caught up with Grince to the next year since his ghostly visits, just three days before Christmas And 20 days after Tonka's terroristic night mare. Grince was on the phone with chief detective Samson, and detailed that they had found Tonka’s flute in possession of Linda about 8 days ago. Tonka's fingerprints were found on the item. Since then the investigation had caught the two goons but details led the police right back to Linda and brent. It was just too unmistakeable to let go of. Tonka’s boyfriend would survive from multiple gunshot wounds and was still recovering in the hospital; He asked Grince if there was anything that he might be able to tell the detective about his friend Drake. As his name kept coming up out of Linda’s mouth. Grince was not even aware they had an acquaintance. Then, Drake walked in while he was on the phone. Grince told the detective; no, that he had known nothing. So detective Samson told Grince if there were any other details, he had the detective’s number. They both hung up. Grince: yeah, what’s up? Drake: I know you were concerened about that investigation, some detective called me and asked me what I knew. I told him I knew nothing, and then he said that he supposed that made a closed deal on the investigation. The guys are caught. Grince: really? He told you that did he? Drake: yup. Grince: anything else? Drake: I thought I would just say Merry Christmas beyond that. Is there poker this Friday? Grince: no, I’m not in the mood. Drake: well, I guess I’ll see you then. Happy New Year!!! Grince: Yeah, Happy New Year. From there drake left. Grince sat in his kitchen for minutes after that, thinking. Eventually he got up and went to the living room and there were his conga’s with a note stating Merry Christmas!
The End.