RoboHen Refuses to Do Anything Useful

On Tuesday, RoboHen was full of excuses. He couldn't do his chores because his granola bar snack was too chewy and took him an hour to eat. He couldn't clean his room because he had a toothache. He couldn't shampoo his feathers because the shampoo might pollute the lair's garden.

So poor RoboHen's mom gave up. She had to reduce the number of things she could accomplish because RoboHen decided to do fewer of them. Instead of making the orange sorbet cake with orange sorbet on top that she had planned as a treat for RoboHen, she cooked him ramen noodles for lunch. Instead of polishing RoboHen's scooter, she had to clean the kitchen, leaving RoboHen to amuse himself.

Back in his room, relieved of doing his chores, RoboHen was bored, so he doodled. He doodled a cartoon rooster holding a green balloon. Then he included a raccoon washing a shiny jewel in a river. Then he sketched a cougar in a giant orange cocoon. His doodle was a thing of beauty. He was so happy with it that he confused his mom by wandering out into the kitchen and asking her what he could do to help. For the rest of the afternoon, he was so useful that she made that orange sorbet cake after all.