Ingrates!!!

No, not you, gentle readers. It's Ming's neighbors who fail to appreciate all that he's done for them. Only yesterday his pet tapir escaped yet again and being hungry, quite naturally, managed to devour several local preschool moppets left unattended by their careless parents.

One would have thought those very same parents would be lining up to kiss Ming's hand and other portions of his anatomy for having saved them the proverbial bundle in future college costs. Only through the good offices of Ming going through the expense of having kept a pet tapir will they now be able to avoid the criminal financial exactions and burdens of what is a glorified high school's exercise in prolonged adolescence.

Yet, instead of approbation, Ming is now subject to opprobrium. You just can't fathom how some people think.