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one day, back in Detroit when i was attending Oakland University and slaving away at the performing arts library, i was very sad. this guy i was seeing was being schmucky and i was having the most rotten day of my life up until that point. (funny how time lends perspective to these things!) i was stuck at work and positively fucking miserable and i think i called sem and said something like "waahhhh-boo hoo everyhting sucks especially that bo-ooy." sometime shortly after, sem, valiant babe and wonderful pal that he is shows up at my desk witha brown paper sack and makes me guess what it could be. "um-----a rock"? no "uh, okay....an apple"? no "well, okay. a frog"? YES! it was a little grey frog, swimming around in a plastic bag within the brown bag. i couldn't believe it, and i couldn't believe i had guessed a frog! sem? anything to add? plus, did you even know that i liked frogs? or was it just who could not like a frog? |
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Um, pretty much as Mavis told it, except that after she sadi, "is it a frog?" I said, totally surprise she gueesed right, "it IS a frog". It was one of those underwater frogs yo can put ina fishtank. And I did know she liked frogs, becasue we had spent one afternoon counting all the frogs in her grandma's old pool, which was then home to a tree, dirt, and a lot of frogs. On a somewhat related note: Today, my office mate brought in a little baby snake he found at a site. For some reason, he thought it might be a timber rattler (not indigineous to this area), but it was a hognose instead. it's only 8 inches long and plays dead when you pick it up, rolling over and sticking out its tongue. It's so cute I could scream. I mention this because a. baby snakes are cute, b. frogs are cute, and c. hognose snakes eat frogs, so there's your connection. |
but *I* didn't even know about the kind of frog you brought me! ha! you tricked me! funny you! |
remember when we rescued that turtle?????? that was the best tortoise 911! |
the turtle was great - I remember how on the way up to your grandma's, it started to tear its way out of the box. It would have been bad to have an angry snapping turtle in labor trying to eat you while driving 60mph up Telegraph. (or was it Opdyke) |
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