my lack of sanity

[elionwyr]

While I was in Long Island last month, a comment was made to me along the lines of, "Gee, you really *do* live in your own private Idaho, don't you?"

I'm still not exactly sure what that means, though I understand it to be a slight against my being grounded in reality.

Which may be more fair than I'd prefer to admit.

Case in point:

I set a pot of plants annachria had given me in the sink, so that when I watered them the overflow would go down the sink drain.

Now, these plants had been taken directly out of the ground and put - soil and all - into said pot. Which meant that there were several earthworms also in the pot. (Surprise!)

I left the kitchen for a few minutes, and returned to find that a worm had slithered out of the pot and into the sink.

Allow me to clarify. This was a regular ol' earthworm. Heck, when I was a kid and the boys would throw worms at girls on the playground after rainstorms, I used to throw 'em back. I used to love fishing, baiting my own hook.

HOWEVER..
Earthworms do not belong in my kitchen sink.
And instantly, my brain snapped into Fantasy Mode.

Oh my god it's an X-Files how the hell did that get in my sink it's a SLUG it's a LEECH it's a baby LEECH PERSON and it came up through the drain and oh my god oh my god oh my god...

And...
I screamed.
I screamed, completely buying the idea that this was some sort of horrid
leech creature that far better belonged in Mulder's office than in my damn
sink.

And in the time it took my brain to return to Planet Earth, the poor critter had fallen down the drain.

Which I feel very badly about.

But..umm..yeah.
My brain is definitely not always wired for sanity.

*sigh*

<- flake

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*gigglefit*

eeeeek!

[gandryyne.livejournal.com]

Ya never know...it could have been a jumping slug ala "The Maxx"! ;)

Re: eeeeek!

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

"They have no natural predators. They're just..stupid."

[oedipuslobster.livejournal.com]

I told you this 10 years ago, and I'll say it again.

It's just a fluke.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I'm left spineless in the wake of that comment.

[oedipuslobster.livejournal.com]

(deep breath)

I would happily invert/abate such a comment...I'd even clam up if I knew it left but a bone of contention.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Oi! Stir the pot, why don't you?

[taer-silveroak.livejournal.com]

That is all.

[dedgurl74.livejournal.com]

*snarf* I'm laughing so hard at your expense, love...and I wholeheartedly apologize...
Now had that been me, I stupidly would have been gazing up at the ceiling wondering how the worm fell out of the sky and into my sink...but I wouldn't have guessed it came from the pot until much later...
You are not alone in your madness...of course not.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[taer-silveroak.livejournal.com]

*is unable to look away from that static gaze* o_o;

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[lunastrixae.livejournal.com]

This, soon after following the possum story, is a classic. :)

If it's fuzzy and maybe rabid, it's OK to poke it at a stick to rescue it from a perfectly safe trash can.

A nice healthy earhtworm (or even a slug mind you) is grounds from screaming and scorn.

Tish tisk, you mammalist!

;)

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

<- snob!!
*hides face in shame*