What a Bad Dream

by Mercer Mayer

Transcript

00:00What a bad dream.

00:07By Mercer Meyer.

00:08I had a dream that I made a magic potion.

00:12After I mixed it up, I drank the potion down.

00:17Then weird things started to happen.

00:20Just like in a spooky show on television.

00:23I changed.

00:25I grew pointy fangs and long claws.

00:28I had bat wings and a long tail.

00:31I could roar so loud that I scared everybody and they left me alone.

00:36Then I did whatever I wanted.

00:39I lived all by myself.

00:41My room looked just the way I wanted it to look.

00:45I had cookies and ice cream for breakfast.

00:49I never brushed my fur or my fangs.

00:52And I never changed my clothes.

00:55I got a gorilla for a pet.

00:57I didn't go to school.

01:00I just rode my bicycle wherever I wanted.

01:04We ate ice cream and fudge pops for lunch.

01:07We played outside as long as we wanted.

01:11Even after it was dark.

01:13At dinner time we just ordered in pizza and didn't use napkins.

01:18I never took a bath even if I was dirty.

01:21I kept lizards and frogs and snakes in the tub.

01:25I watched television as late as I wanted and never even had to go to bed.

01:31I got sleepy anyway and went upstairs.

01:34But there was no one to tuck me in and read me a story.

01:39Then I got scared, and there was no one to give me a hug.

01:43I began to cry.

01:45I wanted my mommy and daddy.

01:48Suddenly someone was shaking me.

01:50It was mom and dad.

01:53You had a bad dream, they said.

01:55Time to put you in bed, said dad.

01:58That's not a magic potion, is it?

02:02I asked.

02:03No, it's just warm milk, said mom.

02:07Good, I said.

02:09I don't want a magic potion.

02:11The end.