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Ladies of a certain age at the Sunset Valley Senior Centre are grinning like the cats that got the cream after reaping the wholly unexpected benefits from last Tuesday's unprecedented Hail of Pumpkins which astonished our community.

Regular readers will doubtless remember our exclusive story on the recent natural disaster that pummeled Sunset Valley, covering our neighborhood with fully grown, ripe pumpkins which had fallen inexplicably from the sky disrupting daily life for our beautiful town for several days.

An amateur meteorologist from Appaloosa Plains, who wishes to remain anonymous, called the phenomena a 'doggone freak of nature’ and went on to expound his own view of the reasons for the Pumpkin Rain.

“Them punkin' thangs got sucked up in Riverview and were plunked down on Sunset like a kid droppin' marbles onto a schoolyard, yessirree. Me? I blame all that darn space travel. We never had things like this when I was a boy. We didn’t think of goin’ into space. We was just happy to go eat our burnt waffles and watch people pee themselves outside the movie theatre. We knew how to have fun back then, not like kids these days.”

In Sunset Valley, scientist and spokesman for Landgraab Industries, Gobias Koffi, told the Daily Sim, just moments before he was escorted off the premises by staff from the Midnight Hollow Home for the Bewildered, that such strange occurrences are not unknown in SimNation where plant and vegetable life are renowned for their sinister interactions with susceptible Sims.

“Whilst I urge the town not to panic, it’s just pumpkins after all and it could be worse. Just look at the Magic Jelly Bean Tree! Worse still, one only has to consider the nature of the Laganaphyllis Simnovorii or as it is more commonly known, the Cow Plant, to know that we Sims ought to live in abject fear of fruit and vegetables. I know I do. I can only thank Twallan that no one has managed to bring the cucumber to our dear Sunset Valley. I can’t begin to imagine the outright chaos they would cause in our beautiful town.”

The ladies of Sunset Valley Senior Centre showed no such fear and wasted no time in converting the abundant pumpkin bounty into pies for the local community; but one lady, a Miss Cindi Rella (aged 96 years young and formally a resident of Dragon Valley) thought pies were too tame and remembered a use for pumpkins her Godmother taught her when she was a slip of a girl.

"Wellllll, some of us girls here at Sunset Valley Senior Centre are still too young at heart to sit here and wait for Grim, and let's face it the ol' dudes round here ain't much good for dancin' and romancin'. I mean, have you seen those old men? So I remembered what my Godmother showed me back when I was working night and day and my fingers to the bone for my stepmother and her daughters. I got me one of them pumpkins, some mice and a rat from the pet shop. Put 'em together and what have you got? Bippity-boppity bippity-boppity bippity-boppity-boo! That’s what my Godmother always used to say.” She said with a smile.

“Anyhow ... That pumpkin becomes a coach, the mice make horses and that ol' rat is the finest coachman you'll see in SimNation. It's the ideal, dreamy transport for me and my girls (Madge, 91, Ellie 84 and Sylvia 79) to go hittin' the clubs and festivals in!”

When asked why asked why she preferred this form of transport as opposed to our fabulous and free taxi service, Miss Rella told us,

“Those things ain’t got no romance and anyway have you seen how them drivers drive them things? A body isn’t safe in one of them things. I regularly see Bella Goth on her bicycle being driven through by them taxis."

The romance of the so called ‘pumpkin coach’, The Daily Sim can reveal, must work because we are reliably informed that Miss Rella’s friend ,Madge, 91 years young, married her toy boy Eddie Gaunt, 31, a local to Sunset Valley. The couple met at a recent all-night 70s Funky Festival in Twinbrook. I asked Miss Rella if these romances were entirely due to the allure of the so called ‘Pumpkin Coach’. Miss Rella certainly had her own theory.

“Are you crazy? Of course not! It’s a well-known fact hereabouts that old Madge Alto was going to leave her millions to the Dogs Home instead of that grandson of hers Nick and his wife Vita. Now she’s leavin’ it all to Eddie. He’s a nice boy. He makes her happy.”

I asked Cindi if there were any downside to vegetable vehicles and she smiled wryly.

"There ain’t no downside, the coach turns back into a pumpkin at midnight, which is fine by us – We might somehow lose one of our bedroom slippers, but that’s fine too. Anyway our medication generally kicks in by midnight and by that time we're too pooped to care anyway!'

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