Woody knew if he waited for just the right moment and made his move, he would discover the name of his mail carrier.

Rocky and Burt had been through a lot together, from learning how to lance their own boils to save on dermatology bills to the terrible strained scallop jelly after filling their taxes. The piano recital was just another test.

Wendell knew that if he once again hesitated to use the coupon, he would lose Lucinda forever

Clancey and Steve were both too polite and both too stubborn to take the last nail, even though they were working on the same project.

Ernie lived in the hopes that one day the world would see and marvel as he does at his room full of rare marbles.

Jingles couldn't tell if the neighbor's cat had seen him already, so he slowly continued cooking the mouse. 

Eric and Enid knew they were in it together and it drove them crazy, but usually not at the same time. 

Every Saturday Al would check the van for spider webs and Aaron would count the change in the ash tray.  

It didn't bother any of them as much as it probably should have. 

Michael was slightly embarrassed that he still got his lefts and rights mixed up as it had more than once jeopardized his job as an air traffic controller.

Eustace saw failure written all over the automated tractor,  Eugene just hid the paints and hoped not to be noticed.

Davey loved this time of year, but all Darren saw was more and more cicada corpses to clean up.

For a few minutes before the climb to work, Izzy wondered why he didn't have more friends whose names began with "i". 

Gregory looked on in awe at the limited edition cheese wheel while Paul could only remember the faces of the mice in his dreams.

What really annoyed Arthur was that he could never remember what he was supposed to be angry about.

Jorge desperately wanted to finish the middle novel in his political trilogy set in ancient Iceland and Squeak just wanted more nuts.

Django had a degree in advanced theoretical finance, but could never make change for a twenty.

Alessandro dreamed his ex girlfriend brought around a flock of assorted animals and woke gasping.

Louis and Louie loved throwing dice, but they could never agree on what the numbers meant.

Xerxes knew he should be out climbing the corporate ladder, but he was just having too much fun with this aluminum one.

Doug knew the kite would fly high above the trees and so did Trent, but Trent also knew that they should probably use some string.