On June 17, 2011 I was walking around Hoboken with my friends Brittany, Tianna, Bryana, Lidia, Kristin, Tessa, and Andrea. We saw Bryana’s dad, who is a cop, by an old warehouse. We asked what was going on and he said that the warehouse had been even more destroyed then it usually was and to keep an eye out for suspicious looking people.
A week later at Brittany’s house the news came on and they were talking about an unidentified hairy creature that was roaming 10th street. My friends and I wanted to help out the town and be detectives so we went to Sybil’s Cave and looked around. It was really dark so I accidently stepped on somebody’s foot and said sorry and the voice that returned was a thick male voice that said, "that’s okay". My friends and I started spazzing out, so we tried to leave but the anonymous voice tried to apologize for scaring us and introduced himself as the Hoboken Monkey Man. After all of us were out of the state of shock, we told Monkey Man that we had to turn him in to the cops but he begged us not to, saying that the cops would take him away. We thought about it and told him that we’d be back tomorrow to help him out.
The next day came very fast and everybody met at the courtyard and walked to Sybil’s Cave where we spoke to Monkey Man and told him that we didn’t have to bring him to the police because he wasn’t hurting anybody. After that, we all hung out- Monkey Man included! Monkey Man said he was hungry so we went to Mario’s and ordered 57 slices of pepperoni pizza, which Monkey Man shoved down his throat and didn’t leave any for us. Our next stop was Fourth Street where we go to be lazy and sit on the turf, until Monkey Man saw a truck that advertised Carlo’s bakery and said that he always wanted to try a cannoli. We took Monkey Man to get 42 cannolis’, which he thought was the best thing in the world and, to tell you the truth, they’re not. The day was coming to a finish so the last thing we got to do was go to 7-11 and get jumbo sized slurpees and throw them in random peoples face. As we said our goodbyes, we told Monkey Man that we’d pick him up the next day at 12.
The next day came equally as fast as the days before and our routine continued until one day Monkey Man said he was going to take us all shopping in New York for all the kind things we’ve done for him. As soon as we got out of the car a group of paparazzi came and took pictures of Monkey Man telling him that he was famous now. We all started laughing and we sprinted away from the paparazzi and were out of breath. We sat down on a bench and continued laughing until we actually went shopping. After we got back from New York, we went to Ben and Jerry’s to get ice cream and went to Pier C and sat there for a while until the Monkey Man raced up the steps of an oversized slide. As he was going down he got stuck and was asking for help, but my friends and I were to busy laughing because that’s the type of people we are. Eventually after a good 10 minutes we pulled Monkey Man out by his feet and we all started with an eruption of laughs once again. After our laughing fit was over, I checked my phone and saw that it was 10:45, fifteen minutes before my curfew, so we told Monkey Man that we’d see him tomorrow.
The next day came slowly and we all met up together and picked up Monkey Man and went to lunch at Qdoba and got quesadillas. After lunch, we were all bored so we bought spray paint, water guns and balloons, mentos and 3 litters of diet pepsi. Chaos ensued and somebody called the cops so we ran all through Hoboken hoping we wouldn’t get caught. After a few days our routines were getting dull and boring and it was almost the end of summer. We had a big party to try and make the last 2 weeks of summer worth it before we had to go back to school. During the party there was a food fight, a water gun and balloon fight, and a pizza eating contest and of course Monkey Man won that. As the last day of summer came, we were all walking on Washington street and suddenly Monkey Man fell into a pothole. We all laughed and ran away. It was hard to breath at the same time then the ground started opening up and we all fell inside. I was woken up by my grandma telling me it was time for school, and I realized it was a dream.
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