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Joey Gets Away
The Escape. Or holiday, if you prefer.
Joey was a pineapple. As a young pineapple, Joey moved from Hawaii to Toronto. [Yeah, I know.]
Like most pineapples, Joey worked long hours at a job that had lost its luster years ago. Joey needed to get away. Escape the city. Take a holiday, as singing superstar Madonna used to say.
Although Madonna never fooled Joey with that fake English accent she used when she started out. He lived close enough to Michigan to recognize a hint of that Midwest/Canadian/Detroit accent sneak out. Eh? Joey figured vacation didn’t sound a good as holiday in a song, so Madonna was forced to become a fake Brit in order to sing it. Or maybe Joey just thought too much.
Joey took his lunch break on the observation deck and planned his escape. His only real stipulation was that it would have to be somewhere that they didn’t play The Piña Colada song.
