When Naughty Negligent woke up in the morning, he always dropped all of his garbage out the window in his neighbor’s yard and claimed, “It’s the raccoons!” every time the neighbors came yelling at him. It was a typical day, so after Naughty Negligent took a shower, he didn’t turn the water off completely. Naughty Negligent went downstairs to eat his daily cereal for breakfast. He got the milk out of the refrigerator and it accidentally slipped out of his hand and spilled all over the floor. Afterward, he grabbed a banana as he walked out of his house (forgetting to lock the door) and dropped the banana peel on the sidewalk as he was opening the door to his car. He looked at the peel on the sidewalk and said, “I hope nobody slips on this, hehe.”

Naughty Negligent was also very neglectful at his job. He worked at an art studio and spent most of his time making art. Fortunately, there is no way to do art wrong, which makes it convenient. When he spills paint accidentally on his painting or makes a shape that he is not going for, it works out because it’s considered “abstract.” After work, Naughty Negligent went to the nearest cafe and picked up some coffee but spilled it on himself, which explains why all of his clothes look stained. Later, Naughty Negligent tried to sell his shirts to people saying, “It is an abstract design.” When Naughty Negligent got back in the evening, he found that his house was flooded because he forgot to turn off the shower water completely. When he ate and went to bed, Naughty Negligent would find that in the morning his car will be long gone down the hill because he parked 5 feet out from the curb, and it is in “neutral.”

Naughty Negligent walked outside the next morning, “Hey,” he said, “why don’t I go over to Officer Perturb’s house and dump my trash in his backyard? He gets annoyed about everything so it would be really funny to see the look on his face before he goes to work.” So, as you would expect, Naughty Negligent went over to Officer Perturb’s house and dumped all of his trash in the backyard. In doing so he didn’t see that Mr. Small was sitting on Officer Perturb’s fence and Mr. Small went toppling to the ground. “Help me,” said Mr. Small as he toppled over the edge.

Just as Naughty Negligent was finished, Officer Perturb walked out of his house. “Oh dear, I really have myself in a pickle now, he said.

“Someday I will catch you Mr. Negligent.”

“That was close,” said Naughty Negligent, hiding behind Officer Perturbs fence and stepping on Mr. Small’s house.

“Wait for a second,” Officer Perturb said, “I’m an officer which means I can conduct an investigation. If I can make him uncomfortable as much as possible then I can probably get an answer out of him.”

“Oh no,” said Naughty Negligent hearing Officer Perturb. “Now I have myself in a pickle.”

“Knock, knock, knock, anybody home?” said Officer Perturb. Naughty Negligent slowly got up and opened the door, knocking over a vase. “Hello Negligent,” said Officer Perturb.

“Oh, hi, what a wonderful surprise to see you,” said Naughty Negligent, with a devilish smile.

“I know you did it Negligent, and I’m gonna prove it,” said Officer Perturb. “Oh, and by the way, since I’m here, can you help pop this pimple on my face?”

“First of all, NOOO, and… I didn’t do it, that’s impossible, just check the security cam…” Of course, at this moment, Naughty Negligent realized that he had forgotten to disarm the cameras at Officer Perturb’s.

“Aha!” said Officer Perturb, “I got you now!” It turns out Officer Perturb was right. “Next time I will make sure to add an extra firewall to the cameras,” he said.

Naughty Negligent hopped in his car to go to work. When he got to his art studio, he opened the door and smelled the smell of paint in the air that he spilled yesterday. He started to work. “That’s perfect…. literally,” he said after finishing a painting. “Why is it so perfect? Uh oh, if I’m not negligent, how will I ever make abstract artwork? Maybe I should stop being naughty to other people too.” On the way home Naughty Negligent decided to make a plan. “I have to learn when to be negligent at the right time, and not to be naughty to people anymore,” he said.

The next day when Naughty Negligent woke up in the morning, he said “Hi” to his neighbors out the window, and even threw his trash in the trash can. After he took a shower, he turned off the water to make sure it did not leak. When he walked out of the house, he locked the door behind him and picked up all his past banana peels.

Naughty Negligent is now very good at his job. He works at the art studio and spends most of his time making art. When he’s at the art studio he lets himself be very negligent to make his artwork very abstract. When he picks up his coffee in the evening, he uses his own cup with a lid on it so he doesn’t spill it. When he gets in in the evening, he helps rebuild Mr. Small’s house, and he finds that his house is perfectly dry and the shower water is turned off. When Naughty Negligent wakes up in the morning his car is there because he parked an inch out from the curb and it was in place in “park.” “I’ve done it!” he said excitedly as the headed off to work (being careful to not step on Mr. Small’s car.) He is now well known as “The Abstract Negligent Painter” all around the city. He even got invited to “The World’s Best Painters” awards ceremony. Overall, if you ever get to meet him, I consider you a pretty lucky person.