I Just Can't Help It

I Just Can't Help It is a Mr. Men own story from 1985. It was written by Roger Hargreaves from the perspective of Mr. Tickle. It was released on the Mr. Tickle cassette in 1993.

Synopsis[]

One Monday morning, Mr. Tickle woke up, stretches his arms out of the two windows on either side of his bedroom, and then streched his arms down to the kitchen to make some cereal. Then as he ate his breakfast in bed, he thought about what he liked to do the most. Tickling everyone! It was then he notices Mr. Stamp the postman, and reached out his arms to tickle him! Then after he helped Mr. Stamp pick up his letters, he sets off to tickle the various citizens of Misterland! The first person he comes across is Mr. Lazy, fast asleep in in his hammock in his garden of Yawn Cottage. Mr. Tickle then stretches out to tickle Mr. Lazy with his long arms which startles him! Mr. Lazy thought it was a fly, and went back to sleep. Then Mr. Tickle used his arms to tickle Mr. Lazy again and made him laugh hard and heartily! Then Mr. Tickle set off to tickle Little Miss Neat when she was hanging out her laundry. Mr. Tickle then states to the readers and/or listeners that his story is called "I Just Can't Help It", and decides to tickle Little Miss Neat with wreckless abandon! And that's not all! He then decides to tickle more people such as Mr. Greedy, Mr. Fussy, Little Miss Sunshine, Mr. Bump, Mr. Chatterbox, Mr. Forgetful, Mr. Muddle, Little Miss Bossy, Mr. Silly, Little Miss Plump (or Greedy), and then stopped to check how many people he'd tickled? He finds out that it's 13 people, and he would love to tickle more people! When he came to the bus stop, where he comes across Mr. Happy, Little Miss Giggles, Mr. Strong, Little Miss Naughty, Mr. Funny, and Little Miss Helpful. He then snuck on to the bus and tickled them, and then got off quickly, and discovered that he had tickled 6 more people, adding the total up to 19! Then he set off home where he met Mr. Small, and tickled him too! But you see, seeing as how Mr. Small is a miniature fellow, it was 19 and a half people he had tickled in one day instead of 20, which was his previous record.