The little lion was very hungry. so he went to the haunted McDonalds and ordered a cheeseburger and fries from the ghost behind the counter. The ghost went to the back and the little lion heard lots of spooky noises come from the kitchen until the ghost came back with his food. The little lion sat down and was about to eat when Scooby-Doo came running in with a warrant from the Health Department. He served the warrant on the ghost behind the counter. Then he pulled mask off the ghost's head. It wasn't a ghost at all -- it was Curtis Sliwa! He'd gone back to managing McDoanlds, but was cutting so many corners in the area of food safety he could only do it disguised as a ghost. So the little lion decided not to eat his tainted cheesburger -- he'd go to Burger King instead. And as they led Curtis Sliwa out in handcuffs he turned to the perp-walk camera crew and said: "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

Cookie and Mojo wanted a spooky story when they want to bed last night. This is what I told them. They've been highly critical lately of most of my bedtime story ideas. This one they seemed to like.