> Man, that is a low-quality pineapple. Take out a pin from another pineapple and replace the missing one, that should do it.
> You can't set a bad impression on the goop if you want it to agree with you! You quickly pull the pin from pineapple #2 and use it to fix pineapple #1.
>Afterward, chuck the newly pinless pineapple aside. We'll fix it once we've gotten this mess dealt with.
>Tug, tug. "You know you aren't going to get sparklies like this later. I wouldn't pass up this deal!"
>You toss the thing away into a distant corner of the room. It lands close to all of the other pineapples. Maybe no-one will notice it?
>The goop seems impressively resistant to your charms, even when you give it a small sample of the sparklies as a taste test. This might be the toughest sale you've ever made.
>Consider the hazards of eating the sticky.
> Attempt to negotiate calmly with the sticky in its native language. Something like "squelch squelch gloop"?
>There are no hazards beyond the fact you may lose your ability to count to ten. (Nothing a quick death wouldn't fix.)
>Your gloop is a bit rusty, but you try your best. "Bloop shlip gghk blll?"
>No response. Now it's just being rude.
>Hey, is that pineapple you threw away beeping? You don't remember pineapples doing that before.