Frantic banging on the door stirred Twilight from her book. With a groan she set down the novel and went to open it. She only touched the doorknob when the door burst open, hitting her in the face as a pink blur flew by, stopping in the middle of the room and jumping up and down in a panic.
"Twilight! I need your help!" Pinkie yelled, Twilight pealed the door from her face and rubbed her sore nose, groaning again.
"What is is this time, Pinkie?"
"I have crabs!" Pinkie yelled. Twilight stopped and stared in confusion.
"Crabs?" She said.
"Yeah, big nasty crabs! I need your help to get rid of them." Pinkie said. "They hurt so badly, Twilight. I've tried everything but they just won't go away!"
"Wait, Pinkie, how did you even GET crabs?"
"I was fooling around on the beach, but that's not important."
"Okay, Pinkie, I think a doctor would be more qualified to deal with this than me. Now maybe you should go so you can get this... issue.... taken care of."
"But Twilight-"
"No buts! A doctor is MUCH more able to deal with these kinds of things. There's no shame in it Pinkie, and it could have been something a lot worse."
"I guess you're right. Thanks anyway Twilight." Pinkie said, somewhat saddened. She turned and left the library, heading back down the street to Sugarcube Corner. When she got there, she opened the door and stepped inside, narrowly avoiding a blue crab that had skittered across the floor. She approached the counter, gently pushing aside a Bering Hermit that tried to get too close. She sighed and shrugged.
"Twilight said no, then?" Mr. Cake said, a crab latched firmly onto his tail.
"Yeah." Pinkie said, flicking a King Crab from her hair. "I don't know what we're going to do."
"I told you not to fool around at the beach. I did that once and ended up with barracuda."
LOL I see that groaner every time I go to the beach ... there's always a seafood place that has an ad that says "I got crabs at <insert name of restaurant here>". Some joints even sell t-shirts with it.
5351749 I don't live anywhere near the ocean, but I live in Ohio, so the only seafood we get comes from Lake Erie... I wouldn't eat anything from there... but hey, we don't have crabs! Instead we have invasive zebra muscles that are slowly killing the already polluted and dying ecosystem.
5351938 I live in Virginia, so I can be at the ocean in three hours or so, depending on traffic and the like (the ocean proper; I can be at the Chesapeake Bay in two to two and a half). I grew up in western PA though (still have family up there, too, plus my brother lives in Dayton), so I do know about the mess that is Lake Erie ... and I wouldn't eat anything out of there, either.