Reporter's Inside Stories: An Interview With Lazy

Reporter: Hello, fellow smurfers out there. My name is Reporter Smurf, and today in this edition of Reporter's Inside Stories, I would like to interview a Smurf who's famous for his daily habit of sleeping. You know him as Lazy Smurf, so there's no need to smurf in any detail about why he's called that. Of course, sleeping isn't his only habit, as he has smurfed another kind of habit that makes his fellow Smurfs rather concerned for him. I'm with him outside his house where... (He coughs as he finds himself breathing in some green smoke.) ...he is enjoying the day with his...uh, habit.

(Lazy is seen smoking a water pipe and blowing green smoke that he is inhaling. He notices that Reporter has just arrived.)

Lazy: Oh, hi there, Reporter. Such a nice day smurfing out here by myself. You want to take a smurf of this stuff? (He hands the water pipe to Reporter for him to take.)

Reporter: Uh, no thanks, Lazy, I'm fine. By the way, what is it that you're smurfing in the pipe just now?

Lazy: Oh, it's my special blend of catnip, mugwort, damiana, and some other kind of dream herb that I don't remember its name. It helps me to feel really relaxed and mellow when there's nothing smurfy for me to do. It tastes really delicious, though it doesn't smurf me as high as I am when I was smurfing smurfnip.

Reporter: I'm not sure why you even need to smurf this kind of habit smurfing these herbs, since you seem like a really relaxed fellow already.

Lazy: It's probably because I always want to feel so good and relaxed, Reporter. It's not easy smurfing through life having to smurf in a hard day's smurf when you don't know how you're going to smurf from one day to the next, so I like to smurf things to make me feel really calm so that I don't have to worry about a lot of things. I guess that's also why some Smurfs say that I'm addicted to snooze. (Laughs.)

Reporter: Some of your fellow Smurfs are rather concerned for you and your addiction to smurfing herbs, saying that it's bad for your health and that you could smurf away early in your life than most Smurfs. Does that matter to you or what?

Lazy: I know that they care about me, but honestly, I never felt so good without the smurfing herbs to give me that nice mellow peaceful feeling that I also get from sleeping. Tapper likes to smurf me his relaxing tea remedies which he says is better for me than smurfing herbs, but I can't help feeling the need to smurf in that nice green smoke from my smurfing herbs. I can't smurf them inside the tavern because Tapper and the other Smurfs in there don't like having to smurf in the smoke, so I have to smurf it outside along with some of the other smurfers like Nosey and Chatty.

Reporter: Besides your smurfing habit, aren't you also concerned about how your other habit of sleeping all the time affects your fellow Smurfs?

Lazy: Sometimes, Reporter. Sometimes I feel like I need to be active in my fellow Smurfs' lives and to help them smurf this village functioning as it does, but the work ends up tiring me out just as I am smurfing it. I don't mean to be always smurfing on the job whenever there's something important like preparing for a hurricane, but most of the time the village seems like it can smurf on without me smurfing much for it, and so that's why I tend to sleep so much.

To be expanded on.