The Singing Goldfish

In the corner of the kitchen sat a large round fish tank. It was the home of seven little goldfish. Gina, one of the goldfish, loved to sing. But her singing made the other fish unhappy because she was the worst singer they had ever heard. As soon as she started to sing they whizzed around the fish tank trying to escape from the dreadful noise. They begged her to stop, but she did not listen. She just sang louder and LOUDER!

So one day, the other goldfish huddled together and tried to make a plan! “We could open the lid and push her overboard,” said one fish.

“No, bad idea,” said the other fish all at the same time.

“We could chase her round the fish tank until she was too dizzy to sing,” said another fish.

“No; if she got dizzy, she might be sick and we would not want to swim about in that!” said the other fish.

“We could tell her to go and sit in the smelly boot. We wouldn’t hear her in there,” said another fish.

“No, it’s too dark in there,” said the other fish.

By the end of the day the goldfish still hadn’t thought of a good plan to stop Gina singing. So with sad little hearts they settled down for the long night.

The next day, as the morning sun shone through the kitchen window, the goldfish suddenly realised it was very quiet. In fact it was too quiet. “Where’s Gina?” said one fish.

Then they heard a noise. “Help!” The goldfish swam around the fish tank to find out where the noise was coming from. It was coming from the tube that fed air into the fish tank. They looked on in amazement for there, stuck inside like a cork inside a bottle, was Gina. “Help me please!” said Gina.

The goldfish huddled together and this time they came up with a very good plan. “You’ll have to hold your breath in, flap your tail and wiggle,” said the other fish to Gina. So that is what Gina did. Slowly she eased along the tube and with a flap of her tail out she popped. She’d never been so relieved in all her life.

So as a thank you to the other fish for their help, Gina decided she would stop singing. The other fish were really pleased to hear this news and the fish tank became a quiet place to live in again. Apart from every Saturday night, that is, because after a little while the fish tank became just a little too quiet. So all the goldfish decided that Saturday night would be Karaoke night, and Gina was always the first one to get up and sing. The other fish didn’t mind now because they only had to listen to her singing once a week instead of every day. So in the end, everyone was happy.