Tilly and Elmer: Hooray, Hooray, the First of May

Elmer and his coffee drinking buddies at Pearl’s Downtown Diner are, as usual, discussing their younger days, when they realize it’s May 1, the traditional date when, as young men, they started thinking that it should now be warm enough for a bit of lollygagging in the woods with their girlfriends. Of course it was rarely warm enough, and their girlfriends usually had other ideas, but the revisionist history they were prone to had made the day a milestone on the calendar anyway.
In this case, it actually WAS warm enough to enjoy some private time together in the woods and Tilly and Elmer set out to do what comes naturally to many species in the springtime. Naturally, they did have a very good time, but you’ll have to read the story to find out how this got them a free trip to Washington, D.C.