The Adventures of Mr. Stinkbottoms and Miss Crankypants...

There once was a very normal house, on a very normal looking street, in a very normal town, next to a very normal city. And in that house lived a man named Mr. Eugene Stinkbottoms. Now Mr. Stinkbottoms (only his closest friends called him Eugene), was a very normal man. In fact, there never seemed to be anything out of the ordinary about him. He wore all the current style clothing, and drove a very normal car to his very normal job, and ate very normal food (which you all know to be things like hamburgers and such).
And so our story would be done in a very normal, if not short, sort of way, if not for the arrival of Mr. Stinkbottoms new neighbour, a Miss Henrietta Crankypants.

...to be continued...