Weekly Warm-Up: From Stream-of-Consciousness to Straightjacket

This one's in two parts:

Part-the-First. Tell a story, start-to-finish. The only requirement is that you write unfettered, without really even stopping to think. Use one (or more) of the story sparks below if you want. You'll have fifteen minutes. You can't stop typing. I repeat: don't think. Take the story wherever your stream-of-consciousness goes.

Part-the-Second. Tell the same basic story, start to finish, but this time I want you to do it in a ten-line poem. Each line must have ten words -- no more, no less. Oh: and there's a rhyme scheme -- ab ab cd cd ee. You can revise the story however you see fit. This time you'll have thirty minutes.

Some story sparks: The Grand Canyon. An accountant named Pauline. Traffic. Des Moines, Iowa. A sitar. A teenager shaving his face for the first time. The 1998 NBA Finals. Boutwell Auditorium. Winter in Alabama. Winter in Las Vegas. Hippos.