Now for something friendly

Now, for a friendly Moment.

At a wayside café, a tour bus with a logo of a blue
elephant painted on its side, stopped so travelers could
drink coffee, eat a ham sandwich or have a quick pee.
The elephant could smell water and since it was a hot
dusty day it tore itself off the bus and walked down to
the river where it bathed and blew big bubbles about.
Then it crossed the stream met other elephants that
after some trumpeting, accepted it into their flock.
And since it was an inoffensive, slightly daft animal,
it was sat to guard baby elephants. It was delighted,
a product of an artist’s imagination it had not been
an infant, now it could relive its missing childhood.
The driver didn’t notice the missing elephant, it is so
easy to overlook what you see everyday, before he
came to the depot at the end of his long shift. Due
to the high price of diesel and petrol it was decided
not to have a new blue elephant painted on; however,
the management instructed drivers to keep an eye out
for the animal as it may get into trouble when trying to
survive on its own.