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It’s Tuesday.
Tuesday, the 24th, to be exact. 3:43, to be even more.
James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are having a busy day of work at Monsters Inc., scaring their child patrons. Or rather, making their children laugh. It’s been 3 years since their discovery that making children laugh produces more power than making them scared. It’s a revolutionary concept, leaving plenty of millennials with almost obsolete degrees as soon as they graduate college. Some of the scare skills transfer over; plenty of them don’t.
Naturally, this has spawned a great debate. Is this power source ethical? How much heavy water do we need to produce? How will we deal with the disposal of the doors? What happens if a child has a meltdown? Is climate change real? Should we stop traumatizing children?
However, there is another viewpoint in the great [verbose] debate. How will toys receive attention now if children are happy?
Sullivan and Wazowski don’t know it yet, but this question would become entrenched with their day-to-day life for longer than any of them would wish to endure, starting Wednesday.