One day a small piece of aluminium

One day a small piece of aluminium felt it was being reshaped by strange machines. It was made into a typical round Can. It felt a bit uncertain when it was lifted to a next machine. Everything became dark all of a sudden and it felt its new body was changing. Then it became light again and it noticed it had turned into a colourful can. But the torturing was not over yet for next it was lifted on to a new conveyer line where it was filled with some strange liquid and the lid was fixed.

But suddenly a rat jumped on the line and pushed the Can down.

"Help!" the Can could only shout when it found itself at the mercy of new factors. All this had been terrifying, but the following days seemed even more like one big nightmare.

The rat had dared to push the Can off the line, and furthermore, it started rolling it towards its nest.

But suddenly the Can heard caterwaul and a big black cat leaped out from behind the corner. The rat goggled its eyes and with its tail between its legs rushed towards its nest.

The cat that had driven off the rat treated the Can as its own. It started to roll the Can scratching it all the time.

The Can’s sufferings would have gone on if it hadn’t been for the voice coming from the distance calling "Miisu! Miisu! Miisu!" which caused the black cat to dash back where he came from. The Can gave a sigh of relief and tried to roll itself under the table where it fell asleep snoring.

At the same time the working day had ended in the factory and all the workers had gone home. The Can, after sleeping only for a few hours, heard silent footsteps and a torch was switched on. The Can peeped out from under the table and saw men in masks.

Its first thought was to escape. It started to roll slowly but all of a sudden he stumbled over something big and red. An alarm started going off and the burglars ran away. It understood that it had done a good turn and saved the factory from being robbed.

Five minutes later the factory was filled with all kinds of people. For this day its adventures were over and it fell asleep again.

Waking up fresh in the morning our Can realised that it couldn’t spend all its life under a table. It decided to look around to find out what was going on.

But it turned out to be not a very good idea. Size 43 shoes would have stepped on it if it weren’t for a woman’s shriek, "Look out! There’s a can!". The man bent down and lifted the Can. He put it into the box where there were others of cans of the same kind.

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