PREMIUM PREVIEW: Mr. Beetle and the Heckler

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  Hello everyone, this is Rhea with a quick note.

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  Now, on to the show.

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  This is Rhea, welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

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  On a recent trip to the ping-pong store,

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  I was right in the middle of the aisle where they keep thousands of ping-pong balls piled up all over the place.

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  You know what I'm talking about.

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  I was selecting the perfect gift for my neighbor, Rodolfo, who plays ping-pong late into the night with his brother.

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  I was shopping for a silent ping-pong ball.

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  It makes no noise when it hits the table.

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  It's a technological wonder, on the same level as, I don't know, the invention of the kazoo.

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  Anyway, just as I reached out to pluck this high-tech silent ping-pong ball from the top of a pile,

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  I was knocked over by an unsettling thought.

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  I literally fell over into an enormous pile of ping-pong balls, which promptly scattered around the entire aisle.

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  Seventeen people kindly rushed over to help me up.

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  And what was the unsettling thought that led to the scattering of thousands of ping-pong balls?

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