S.P.C.A.?
I told the kids I didn’t want them to get a hamster, but they just thought I was being grumpy old dad, again.
“We’ll feed it, and water it, and make sure it stays in its cage, ALL the time.” Yeah, right!
So, here I am, with half this wall ripped down, and still no hamster. We can hear it, but we still can’t see it. If it dies in there, I don’t know which will be worse, the stench, or the kids’ wails.
I’ll need to use their college fund to hire a drywaller. Shoulda got them a turtle!
Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site. Use the weekly Wednesday photo as a prompt, and write a complete 100 word story.
And a shout-out to my chiropractor, who now reads my drivel, and without whom, I could not sit comfortably and compose it – straighten the kid out today!
Archon's Den 
This actually happened years ago to a neighbor of ours. Her grandson’s gerbil somehow got behind a wall. Poor thing.
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Not terribly *creative*, I often write from experience, mine or someone else’s. Thanx for visiting. 🙂
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Aww. Poor guy. I think the fact that it’s based on real life makes it better. Hope they found the little guy eventually.
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Poor guy me, for not being *creative*, or, poor guy, stupid hamster, for getting lost in the wall?? By the time we found him, he’d got out the air duct on our side and chewed a nest in my pillow. 😦
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Totally relatable Thankfully, never happened. Fun story, at least for this parent.
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I suspect a bunch of young parents are thinking, “Goldfish! Yeah, goldfish.” 😯
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This was such a joy to read. There had been several times that a mouse was in our wall, and we always checked to see if our hamster was gone before going after it. I think nothing is worse then the stench of a rotting corpse in the wall! I really loved this!
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Thanx a lot. 🙂
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I can see this scene unfold easily. My guess, the kid’s wails would be worse.
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I now wear hearing
aidsassistors, occasionally. If I’d had them “back then”, I could just have turned them off. 👿LikeLike
Very funny – I love this take on the prompt 🙂
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I’m glad you like my version. It just amazes me that so many people “see” so many different things in the same photo. 😕
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Sometimes being kind (i.e. buying a gerbil) isn’t always the best idea. Great take on the prompt.
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Thanx for stopping ’round. Now I need to Google who sang “Gotta be Cruel to be Kind.” 😀
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Archon, That was hilarious. The real story was even funnier. 😀 I remember when our daughter’s pet rat got loose and got under a bed. Our son and I went after him and finally caught him. He was the kind of rat they use in laboratories and was very sweet tempered. My daughter heard they liked dog food chunks. He loved them “too” much. He got as fat as a little pig and we had to go back to his regular food. Well written. 🙂 —Susan
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The grandson has a cute little white milk snake as a pet. A slobby ex-roommate dropped something on the screen cage cover, and put a 1 inch three-corner tear in it, which the daughter repaired with Gorilla Tape. I got to her place this morning to hear that, the snake had not actually got away, but he spent a chunk of last night carefully untaping it. Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense. 😯
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But you were thinking of remodeling anyway, right? 😉
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I wasn’t then, but I am now. As you ‘catch up’, you’ll find a recent post about me having a rat in the finished basement ceiling. Four cats in the house, and I can’t get rid of him. I’ve trapped four of his concubines and one adolescent heir, but he’s a canny old rat. He chewed his way in through a dryer vent, and I found lint all over the corner of the utility room. 😈
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