Well, Lance, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, all of the animals lived together in harmony and in a great big forest called TreeLand. Then, one day, a little Monkey named Bananas visited the forest. Now, Bananas started off alright, but soon he became jealous of some of the other animals. He envied the way that all the other animals respected the Lion, Duncan. So, he decided to form a group of the other Monkeys to protest against the Lion. When he got to Duncan's home, he found the Lion chatting with his friend Autumn, the Wolf. Bananas and the other Monkeys spent all day bothering the Lion, until the two were forced to leave. But rather than fighting back, Autumn and Duncan went to speak to the Wise Tree, Forrest, who all the forest respected and loved. Forrest listened to what they said, and the next day, he explained to Bananas that he was being a bad Monkey, and that if he kept behaving the way that he was behaving, the other animals wouldn't like him.
But Bananas didn't listen, instead, he decided to go after Autumn and his friends. He spent every night screeching and screaming and keeping them up, and in the day he would fling his own excrement down onto the unsuspecting animals from the trees. Soon, it began to annoy everyone.
So, Roy the Tiger, Scampi the Cat, and Benny the Rat set off, and soon they reached Bananas' home at the far end of TreeLand. They said, to him, "Don't you see that you are causing trouble?". But he wouldn't listen, and they kept talking, showing him the mess he had made and that he didn't have to keep attacking everyone, because no one was listening. But still, he didn't care.
Now, many moons later, Bananas the Monkey is still screeching and hollering all night, but things have changed for him. No longer will any of the others, not even the other Monkeys, talk with him. Bananas cannot even come down from the tree he lives in, because he knows that the other animals will be there to chase him back up the tree. Bananas is now a sad and very, very lonely Monkey.
The moral of the story is that people who are jerks don't get friends. And if we're lucky, they also get eaten by Tigers.
