Make a 5 min story

My friend told me to make a 5 min story using the following: a kangeroo, salt and pepper shakers, and the name of our friend Paul Lin.
So:

Paul Lin was a man who favoured his privacy. He had never been a very social person, even in his childhood, preferring the company of books to the company of other children.
He read books voraciously, practically swallowing them whole. Paul Lin most specifically loved books about marsupials.

The decades shuffled on. Paul had become a corporate person. He wore suits to work. He had schedules. He bought salads for lunch. But one day, he took pause. It was at this moment, that Paul Lin decided that he was not his life, and his life was not him. Where does a man go when he prefers solitude, and marsupials, above the normal day to day mechanics of modern society?

To the outback, he decided.

Paul Lin got on a plane, with a stack of his favourite books and some key wardrobe items. He took up residence some 7 hours outside of Auckland. And there he stayed.

Strangely though, he became lonely. But he knew that his lack of social prowess, coupled with two years of hermetic living in the outback hardly made him a desirable companion for the average Ozzie.

He began to dust various vegetables and meats with spices in the hopes of drawing out some creature companion.

Oddly, it was the combination of salt, pepper and guava that enticed a kangeroo from the outback's silence. A marsupial! The kangeroo took to Paul Lin right away, and misadventures of a downunder sort ensued.

But friend, that story is for another time.