Rhino     

Notes for a story:

Man meets woman. He discovers after falling in love with her that she lives with a rhinoceros. The rhino is my soulmate, she says, and I can only be separated from it one night a week. These are the nights the man and woman go out, until later in the relationship, when they start going on great man-woman-rhino excursions. Man acquires larger vehicle to incorporate rhino, maybe a dump truck.

Man and woman decide to get married. Their detailed pre-nuptual agreement dictates that the wedding must be on a certain day, which is a day when she must be accompanied by the rhino at all times. Man, woman and rhino proceed to the altar. There is a best man, a bridesmaid, and a rhino groom. Marriage is raucous and hard to follow, with heavy drinking by the family of the rhino, and perhaps a few mazurkas.

Man, woman and rhino go on lavish honeymoon. London, Paris, Brussels, etc. In Verona, man wakes one day to discover the woman gone and the rhino left behind. Upon close examination of the marriage certificate, he realizes that he in fact married the rhino and not the woman. The detailed pre-nuptual agreement dictates that the rhino's spouse can only be separated from the rhino one day of the week. Man spends the rest of his life trying to find a woman to trick into rhino matrimony.

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