“May I be Thomas’s pet?” “Hippopotamuses are very expensive to feed,” I told it. “Plus it’s a lot of work to give you a bath.” “May we please be Thomas’s minions?” a bunch of cute little creatures with four eyes, goggles and balloon hands asked me a few days ago. They jumped up and down the whole time. “No, little minions. It’s my understanding that minions eat toes,” I told them. .