Christmas Ferret's Helping
1. Gather presents, boxes, paper, etc. in middle of living room floor.
2. Get tape back from Ferret.
3. Remove scissors from older Ferret's mouth.
4. Open box.
5. Take Ferret out of box.
6. Remove tape from older Ferret's mouth.
7. Take scissors away from Ferret.
8. Put present in box.
9. Remove present from Ferret's mouth.
10. Put back in box after removing Ferret from box.
11. Take scissors from older Ferret & sit on them.
12. Remove Ferret from box & put on lid.
13. Take tape away from older Ferret.
14. Unroll paper.
15. Take Ferret OFF box.
16. Cut paper being careful not to cut Ferret's foot or nose that is
    getting in the way as it"helps".
17. Let Ferret tear remaining paper.
18. Take Ferret off box.
19. Wrap paper around box.
20. Remove Ferret from box & take wrapping paper from its mouth.
21. Tell older Ferret to fetch the tape so he will stop stealing it.
22. Take scissors away from Ferret.
23. Take tape older Ferret is holding.
24. Quickly tape one spot before taking scissors from older Ferret &
    sitting on them again.
25. Fend off Ferret trying to steal tape & tape another spot.
26. Take bow from older Ferret.
27. Go get roll of wrapping paper Ferret ran off with.
28. Take scissors from older Ferret who took them when you got up.
29. Give pen to older Ferret to hold so he stops licking your face.
30. Remove Ferret from present & hurriedly slap tape on to hold the
    paper on.
31. Take now soggy bow from Ferret & tape on since the sticky stuff no
    longer sticks.
32. Take pen from older Ferret, address tag & affix while Ferret tries
    to eat pen.
33. Grab present before Ferret opens it & put it away.
34. Clean up mess younger & older Ferret made playing tug-of-war with
    remnants of wrapping paper.
35. Put away rest of wrapping supplies & tell Ferret's what good
    helpers they are.
AND IF YOU THINK THIS SOUNDS INTERESTING, YOU OUGHT TO TRY IT TEN FERRETS
[Posted in FML issue 2899]