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Emily
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Date Posted: 14:35:59 05/30/07 Wed
I don't know how to spell ferrets. Is it ferets?
So, when you think of a ferret, what do you think of? I'll tell you what I think of: a fast moving, jumping, snakey furry animal with beady eyes and sharp vicious teeth that will bite you and not let go!
That's why, when Joe urgently called me outside on the porch and emphatically motioned to the ferret that was only 2 feet away, I grabbed a baseball (it was right there) and threw it at the ferret, then SHRIEKED and jumped up on the camping chair when the ferret turned and ran towards me. "AM I SAFE ON THIS CHAIR???!!!"
Joe was sitting in another chair with his feet up in the air. This ferret wouldn't leave us alone. He/She was not at all afraid, and kept on running underneath our chairs, pawing at all the junk on our porch, and making these weird low-pitch squeeking sounds.
I.Was.Freaked.Out.
Then Joe jumped off the chair and ran a few feet away. Said ferret ran after Joe, and they played a game of chase. At this time we discovered that when Joe hopped up onto the porch, the ferret had a hard time scrambling up on the porch after him--not as good at jumping onto things as I expected. "So, I think I'm safe standing here on this camping chair," I thought. So I stayed.
Then Joe made the observation: I think this is a tame ferret, maybe a pet. We noticed that the nieghbors had some friends visiting from out of town, and we just had a hunch than maybe the ferret belonged to them.
Joe ran over to their house, while I kept watch on the ferret on my perch of the camping chair.
The dad and his 3 year old daughter came out, she ran after the ferret and scooped him up in her hands.
I felt like such a weenie.
It's not their pet, but a lost pet that has adopted their home. They've knocked on doors and haven't found the owner. Probably a student who abandoned the ferret. Poor ferret.
That's when I saw the firefly sparking above the nieghbor guy's head. SO--here is the other "Emily is an idiot" scene. Not expecting fireflies this early in the year (hey, I've never lived with fireflies in my life), I ask the neighbor: "What is that? Sparking above your head? Are you smoking something that sparks?"
ARE YOU SMOKING SOMETHING THAT SPARKS??? Seriously, Emily.
(In my defense, often in the evenings he smokes these fruity smelling cigars in his backyard.)
He chuckled and said it was a firefly. Duh! But, he did say they are out a lot earlier this season than usual.
He also said that we will get hundreds of fireflies in our yard this summer, and that they are harmless and pretty and easy to catch. How cool is that?
So, Athens is very exciting afterall.
P.S. Joe came in an hour later and said that (while sitting on the front steps talking on the phone) he saw the ferret chase an elderly couple strolling down the street and the gentleman just about had a heart-attack and kicked the ferret really hard.
Ferrets.
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