Sunday, April 30, 2006
DINGLENOOSE STRIKES AGAIN!
finally, i can bring this story to you with pictures. it actually happened 2 weeks ago. but the camera i used didn't get along with my computer. (few devices do)
anywhatchamacallit. here it is. another tale of the shiny demon who taunts my life assaulting my olfactory senses and vomit threshold usually involving the demise of a mouse or two.
i was cleaning a pool in a "kind of like" farmland area. as i finished, i noticed what i thought was some straw stuck in the pool return. that's the little "jetlike" thingies that shoot filtered water back into the pool. the opening is about a half an inch wide.
so i innocently reach in and pull the piece of straw out of the return and ewww, i notice it's kind of slimy and flexible. the words that escaped my mouth in a flash were, "OH GUH! IT'S A MOUSE!"
yup, that's right. it was a small mouse, being shoved as hard as possible rear end first through the pool return. ...gross.
i would have loved to have just left it there, gone about my bidness, and be on my merry way. but i couldn't leave a pool in an unsanitary way like that. it's kinda my job.
so i turn off the pool system. didna need to unscrew the eyeball that he was trapped in and have his remains shoot across the pool. that would be just a goofy mess.
all the while, thinking happy thoughts. (mainly involving jessica alba and/or cadbury eggs) i then cautiously unscrewed the makeshift coffin.
worse yet, i had to pry him out with my knife. don't worry, i washed the knife off. still grossed me out. happy thoughts. find a happy place. (repeat)
so there ya have it. the corpse of another victim of what i'm sure is the possession of Dinglenoose.
what i figured happened to the poor fellow was: there is a hole in the bottom of a pool filter that we leave open during the winter in case any water gets inside. sometimes critters like to make that filter their home. well, the pool gets opened, that hole gets closed. and whether he was alive or dead when it happened. he was sucked into the lines of the pool. and that's where our story begins.
hope you enjoyed Spacey's gross story o the day.
i love you too.
finally, i can bring this story to you with pictures. it actually happened 2 weeks ago. but the camera i used didn't get along with my computer. (few devices do)
anywhatchamacallit. here it is. another tale of the shiny demon who taunts my life assaulting my olfactory senses and vomit threshold usually involving the demise of a mouse or two.
i was cleaning a pool in a "kind of like" farmland area. as i finished, i noticed what i thought was some straw stuck in the pool return. that's the little "jetlike" thingies that shoot filtered water back into the pool. the opening is about a half an inch wide.
so i innocently reach in and pull the piece of straw out of the return and ewww, i notice it's kind of slimy and flexible. the words that escaped my mouth in a flash were, "OH GUH! IT'S A MOUSE!"
yup, that's right. it was a small mouse, being shoved as hard as possible rear end first through the pool return. ...gross.
i would have loved to have just left it there, gone about my bidness, and be on my merry way. but i couldn't leave a pool in an unsanitary way like that. it's kinda my job.
so i turn off the pool system. didna need to unscrew the eyeball that he was trapped in and have his remains shoot across the pool. that would be just a goofy mess.
all the while, thinking happy thoughts. (mainly involving jessica alba and/or cadbury eggs) i then cautiously unscrewed the makeshift coffin.
worse yet, i had to pry him out with my knife. don't worry, i washed the knife off. still grossed me out. happy thoughts. find a happy place. (repeat)
so there ya have it. the corpse of another victim of what i'm sure is the possession of Dinglenoose.
what i figured happened to the poor fellow was: there is a hole in the bottom of a pool filter that we leave open during the winter in case any water gets inside. sometimes critters like to make that filter their home. well, the pool gets opened, that hole gets closed. and whether he was alive or dead when it happened. he was sucked into the lines of the pool. and that's where our story begins.
hope you enjoyed Spacey's gross story o the day.
i love you too.
