Rusty called me yesterday when he was at Wal Mart with Ashlyn. This was our conversation:
Rusty: I want to buy Ashlyn a fish.
Me: No.
Rusty: It's only $5 for the entire kit!
Me: Who will clean the cage?
Rusty: It won't live long enough to have to clean the cage.
Me: You promise?
Rusty: Yeah.
Me: Just a week?
Rusty: Yeah.
Look at where Rusty put it! I would've moved it myself, but let's be honest, I really really really want it to die.
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2 Months. Does it have a name?
awww. your first pet. my bet is that it outlives Rusty.
hey good news...a goldfish, a filterless tank, a week....You probably wont be able to see it anymore to know if it's there.
You can always sneak into a watter bottle bring it with you to women's conf, and send it home with me, I'll add it to Ty's collection.
Rene, you're giving Rusty less than a week to live? Do you know something we don't?
Just in case I haven't told you lately, Rusty, I love you!
So, you do realize that is a bowl and not a cage, right? Actually, if you did put it in a cage it would shorten it's lifespan significantly. Just a tip for next time.
Ours lived for one day. I put it in a big bowl of water because we "won" it as the state fair and I didn't have a real fish bowl. It jumped out of the bowl sometime in the night onto the kitchen floor and I went in at 3 am to get a drink and had the pleasure of squishing it under my barefoot while walking in the dark.
NEVER. AGAIN.
Poor little fish.
This is the saddest thing I have heard in a long time.
Ditto to Kate! :P
one of the idioms we taught our students this week was "kick the bucket". i explained that you'd never say this to someone whose spouse or child just died, but more appropriately, when someone's fish died. i hadn't read your blog yet, but if this is an omen, i'd say the fish is almost a gonner, and when he goes, let me say, "i'm happy for you but sorry for ashlyn that her fish kicked the bucket."
Brit... please post a pic of the dead fish... less the laughing mom, the screaming kids and the replacement turtle or cameleon lizard!
Remember how I got rid of Hayleigh's fish? Just clean the bowl over the garbage disposal.
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