impromptu

The story is set in a small town. During the story, there is a need to ask directions. The story must have an elephant at the beginning. The story must involve some glue in it.

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Someone was knocking at the door.

"I'm coming!" Minnie called.

When she opened the door, she almost fell over in amazement. An elephant stood there.

"Excuse me," said the elephant. "I've been walking for days and I'm afraid I've lost my way. I'm trying to get to the North Pole. Can you please direct me?"

"What would a talking elephant do at the North Pole?"

"One of Santa Claus' reindeer is having a birthday party. I met her last year while he was delivering presents and we quite got along. She invited me specially."

Minnie was already scheming about how to keep the elephant. She would make so much money charging people to come see a talking elephant! Her small town's tourism would skyrocket, thanks to her. She could give elephant rides...maybe set up a psychic elephant advice business...and if all else failed, and the elephant wasn't cooperative, elephant meat was an expensive delicacy.

"You can't get to the North Pole without swimming or flying," she said. "Why don't you come into my backyard and I'll call around, see if I can commission a special boat?"

"Much obliged," said the elephant, and Minnie showed him into the backyard. She gave him a bowl of peanut butter in which she'd mixed some powerful sleeping pills. Soon, the elephant was fast asleep.

Minnie was afraid that the elephant would easily destroy her property when he woke. So she used large amounts of Krazy Glue and glued his feet to the ground and his rump to the side of the house. "Got you," she gloated, and she began to make a sign--"See the Talking Elephant--$10 for 10 minutes."

The elephant was forced into slavery for Minnie. He tried to explain his cause to the people who came to gawk at him, but they just laughed and threw peanuts at him when he spoke. When he refused to speak, Minnie showed him the price list she'd gotten for elephant meat, and unwillingly he cooperated with her moneymaking efforts.

And Minnie did get rich.

But of course such an evil use of an innocent elephant could not continue indefinitely...

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What happens next?