Modern Day Canterbury Tales

It was a summer trip to Japan that led me to the twenty-nine souls. They were from all walks of life, and we were all on that commercial flight as a high school learning experience. One of them came up with a bet to spice up our sixteen hour flight: "Lets all tell a story. The winner who can tell the best gets fifty dollars from everyone else. It's kind of like a modern day Canterbury Tales. We all agreed and put our hands together, vowing an oath. That's how it began. Let me introduce to you the fine characters of this stage: