tmgrl2
When I was about 8 years old a friend and I decided to catch ourselves a squirrel. They are so cute! (we thought).
So we took a cardboard box, cut a hole in two sides, tied a nut to a string (I'm not kidding we really did this) and slipped it through both holes.
We had been calling this particular squirrel with little chittling noises and he seemed to be approaching us in a friendly fashion.
So, we wait on one side of the box.
The string with the nut is way out in front of the first hole. As the squirrel approached we s...l...o...w...l...y pulled the string into the first hole.
Voila! the squirrel followed the nut right into the box.
We quickly closed the flaps.
We had our cute happy little squirrel.
Immediately, however, the squirrel became frantic throwing itself at all sides, scratching wildly inside the box. We became terrified and wanted to let it go but were afraid it would attack.
Finally, we ran away from the box as fast as we could toward one of our homes. As we did we heard the scratching stop. The squirrel had pushed open a flap and was running like crazy away from us and up a tree.
I can't see or think of squirrels without remembering the great squirrel capturing event. I don't know what we thought would happen if we really did catch the squirrel. We were shocked it was tricked and then scared to death it was going to come flying out of the flap and attach itself to one of our faces, clawing and gnawing and biting like a rat.
What this means for the card? I don't know.
Beware of creatures that look innocuous and cute. They have the potential to scare the living daylights out of you even if they are just as frightened of you?
terri
So we took a cardboard box, cut a hole in two sides, tied a nut to a string (I'm not kidding we really did this) and slipped it through both holes.
We had been calling this particular squirrel with little chittling noises and he seemed to be approaching us in a friendly fashion.
So, we wait on one side of the box.
The string with the nut is way out in front of the first hole. As the squirrel approached we s...l...o...w...l...y pulled the string into the first hole.
Voila! the squirrel followed the nut right into the box.
We quickly closed the flaps.
We had our cute happy little squirrel.
Immediately, however, the squirrel became frantic throwing itself at all sides, scratching wildly inside the box. We became terrified and wanted to let it go but were afraid it would attack.
Finally, we ran away from the box as fast as we could toward one of our homes. As we did we heard the scratching stop. The squirrel had pushed open a flap and was running like crazy away from us and up a tree.
I can't see or think of squirrels without remembering the great squirrel capturing event. I don't know what we thought would happen if we really did catch the squirrel. We were shocked it was tricked and then scared to death it was going to come flying out of the flap and attach itself to one of our faces, clawing and gnawing and biting like a rat.
What this means for the card? I don't know.
Beware of creatures that look innocuous and cute. They have the potential to scare the living daylights out of you even if they are just as frightened of you?
terri