malmallbad/badly

Buddy was a bad mall cop. He wanted to be good, but he was overweight and out of shape and not getting any younger.

To make matters worse for Buddy, he played “Bad to the Bone” often while policing the mall. The mallrats who lived for making mall cops look bad, thrived under Buddy.

They threw bouncy balls in the mall and knocked over trash cans. They tagged up the side of the building and in the bathrooms too. These things made Buddy look really bad. Even worse than the regular, bad mall cops.

It wasn’t long before Buddy was known as the worst of the bad mall cops. And it wasn’t long after that, he was fired.

Buddy got a job doing security at night for a local lab and was much happier. He still listened to “Bad to the bone,” during his shifts from time to time, but he never went to the mall again.

cuentacuentos
2011-08-01