Beetlejuice’s new hobby wakes authorities up late at night, and they’re cranky. Their crankiness might be due to them not figuring out what was making the noise for a few weeks. It also might be because they didn’t know where the noises were coming from, and it freaked them out. When things go bump in the night, most people tend to overreact.
Beetlejuice noticed six months after moving into the Mansion that he could touch the glass lid and make it move. This is his new pass time when he gets tired of trying to make the wall between him and M. Geoffrey move. It took about a month for the authorities to realize that Beetlejuice was thumping the lid at all hours of the night. They figured it out when he decided that making the lid jump to tell them he was hungry got their attention much better than doing the up-and-down happy dance. The first time he did it, authorities fed him, not realizing at the time that they were reinforcing his behavior. Beetlejuice redoubled his efforts by adding daytime thumping exercises.
“I fully admit that I find satisfaction in the ability to have scared the authorities into thinking about their possible death and then to keep them up at night or interrupt their conversations when company comes over,” Beetlejuice told us in between attacks on the wall.
“At first we thought his antics were amusing, even a bit cute, but the constant disruption of our sleep has gotten old,” groused one of the authorities as she placed a water bottle on the lid. “The weight of this should give us a good night’s sleep.”
Those of us at the Review feel that after all the trauma the watery residents have endured at the hands of the authorities, some noise in the night is less than they deserve.
—The Bubbly Review
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