3 turtles Fergus, Lee and Laurence decide to go on a picnic.

So Lee packs the picnic basket with cookies, bottled sodas, and sandwiches. The trouble is, the picnic site is 10 miles away, so the turtles take 10 whole days to get there. By the time they do arrive, everyone’s exhausted. Lee takes the stuff out of the basket, one by one. He takes out the sodas and says, “Alright, Fergus, gimme the bottle opener.”

“I didn’t bring the bottle opener,” Fergus says.

“I thought you packed it.” Lee gets worried. He turns to Laurence.

“Laurence, do you have the bottle opener?”

Naturally, Laurence doesn’t have it, so the turtles are stuck ten miles away from home without soda. Lee & Fergus beg Laurence to turn back home and retrieve it, but Laurence flatly refuses, knowing that they’ll eat everything by the time he gets back.

After about two hours, the turtles manage to convince Laurence to go, swearing on their great-grand turtles’ graves that they won’t touch the food. So, Laurence sets off down the road, slow and steadily.

20 days pass, but no Laurence.

Lee and Fergus are hungry and puzzled, but a promise is a promise.

Another day passes, and still no Laurence, but a promise is a promise.

After three more days pass without Laurence in sight. Fergus starts getting restless. “I NEED FOOD!” he says with a hint of dementia in his voice.

“NO!” Lee retorts. “We promised.”

Five more days pass. Lee realizes that Laurence probably skipped out to the diner down the road, so the two turtles weakly lift the lid, get a sandwich, and open their mouths to eat.

But then, right at that instant, Laurence pops out from behind a rock, and says, “I knew it! I’m not fucking going.”