Why did the tiny piece of confetti refuse to jump into the air at midnight?
It was feeling a little down in the scraps.
Confetti consists of tiny paper scraps scattered during celebrations. The riddle cleverly adapts the common emotional idiom feeling down in the dumps to fit the physical reality of small, discarded pieces of paper lying on the floor.
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