Killed to DEATHSpeedevil asks: What have you killed? Accidentally, or on purpose. Concepts, species, a man in Reno, the career of a well-known entertainer, or anything else.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 13:18)
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Junior School Class Hamster.I was an excited 9 year old, bounding out to my Mum's parked car one afternoon after school.
"Mum, Mum, it's my turn to have the class pet Snowy the Hamster this weekend!"
My Mum was less pleased about this forced guardianship which she's sure she'd never consented to. We took it home, put the cage in the spare bedroom and woke up Saturday morning to find a very slow moving and sleepy hamster, or so I thought. Off to the vets we went only to be told he was in the advanced stages of wet tail and unlikely to make it through the weekend.
Sure as eggs is eggs he died that night. We had a little burial in the back garden, shoebox, wooden cross made of sticks, the whole works.
It was my job, as a vulnerable skinny child to take the now empty hamster cage back into school the next day. As the girls bound round me excited to see little Snowy again after a few days without him, I tried to cover it up best I could, "he's sleeping" I said, "and hiding", "hiding and sleeping" They soon realised there was no hamster in the cage, their sense of shock and disappointment lives with me to this day. Ok I didn't kill it with my bare hands, but try telling that to the children of 4B.
Now when I'm surrounded by a group of girls I have the exact same nervous reaction, eyes darting to and fro and a dry mouth, I'll forever be that boy standing there holding the empty cage.
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JebediahSpringfield, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 16:36,
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There's nothing like breaking the ice with some chicks by saying
"I've killed before you know"
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Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 17:28,
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"surrounded by a group of girls"Are you a teacher, or should we inform the police?
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 17:48,
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