Stupid Man Dies A Stupid Death
by Alexander
There once a man from Beijing. His name was Chong-Lei. He was a very silly man. He never was serious and always joked around. Chong-lei had no friends because of the way he acted. The reason he was so silly was because, when he was a little boy a crazy man kidnapped him and kept tickling him. Chong-lei never forgot it. Now every time he thinks about being kidnapped he starts cracking up and remembers being tickled. Chong-lei knows people get annoyed with him but, he just can't control; the laughter.
Chong-Lei had only two friends, his mom and dad. He was a smart man but was always losing his jobs because he was so silly.Every time he lost a job he would laugh harder than the last time. Some of his jobs were a fisherman, a doctor's aid, a first mate and a builder. In each of these jobs Chong-lei had to work with other people who were very serious about their work. However, Chong-lei couldn't help but laugh at the other workers and as a result they thought he was not doing his work and had no respect for them.
One day he got a job as an apprentice for a calligrapher named, Woo-She. After one day he was fired. This time he laughed so hard that he died. Some say the laughing killed him and some say he choked, but either way they say "A STUPID MAN DIES A STUPID DEATH."I say "a stupid man dies laughing."
