Stuff I've foundFreddy Woo writes, "My non-prostitute-killing, lorry driving uncle once came home with a wedding cake. Found it in a layby, scoffed the lot over several weeks."
What's the best thing you've found?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:58)
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Ahh, nostalgia...One time I was cleaning my room at my mother's insistence, going through my old knick knacks and all the random items that accumulate on bookshelves. You know, little ceramic cats and things. There's always the little moments of nostalgia as you remember painting that mug at day camp or getting this photo frame from your grandmother and never ever putting anything in it...
Anyway, I came across a small box with a shoe on it and opened it up, only to find a memento of the summer I found a dead lizard. It'd been out in the scorching sun all day, and it wasn't a very big one, so by the time I found it it was basically mummified. Before it dried out completely, though, some ants or something had clearly gotten to it, because about a quarter of the skin on its back was missing, providing a TOTALLY AWESOME window through which I could see the spine. It was pretty great. I kept it in the box for a while. I was going to take it into science class when school started up again but then I forgot. Only to find it AGAIN all those years later...
How many people can say they found the same dead lizard twice?
(eta PS also I went camping with some friends once and we found a pair of wallaby skulls, still with bits of flesh hanging off them. It was awesome. We slipped one into one guy's tent to give him a hilarious wake-up call. :D Then later we stuck the other in a campfire. What? No, I don't remember why. Possibly we were trying to burn off the fleshy bits. It mostly just glared at us spookily from it's flaming eyesockets and then crumbled into soot. Pity, really.)
ETA 2 click "I like this" if you agree with chart cat that I am a future serial killer.
(, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 10:22, 1 reply)
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