I'm frequently amazed by the kinds of bizarre (but in a twisted way, still reasonable) leaps of logic that my dad comes up with from time to time. But even by his standards, this one's a doozy.
Our house has recently become home to a new family of groundhogs who've dug a burrow in a secluded corner of the house, digging right up against the foundation. We've had that happen once or twice before, but previously always in reach of the garden hose, so flooding them out was easiest. This time, he came up with a more -- well, "subtle" isn't the right word... maybe indirect? -- approach.
His original thinking was how animals often mark their territory, and other animals will stay away from predators' marked territories. So he had the novel idea of marking the territory near the groundhogs' new burrow to see if that'll convince them to find a new home out in the woods where they won't be disturbing our house's foundation.
Bizarre, I know!
I'll let you know how it turns out. Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
This is a sick man, right here....
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
So you're saying your father pisses on his own foundations? In Portuguese, that would make a terrific insult. . .
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Well, probably not on the foundation itself; I imagine he was targeting the trees and various items surrounding the house instead. And as far as I know, he only tried it once, and just recently. Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yah, but who hasn't gone out to the back yard to take a pee just for the heck of it? I do it to keep the squirrels away.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I shat down a molehill once, and they (the moles) were not convinced to leave. Your dad is crazy.
[ May 16, 2005, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Cartman ]
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Please tell me you took toilet paper with you. Walking back inside with clown lips could not have been a pleasant feeling.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Clown lips. I've never heard that term before. I have one more reason now to dislike clowns.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
If a mole bit your anus, how could you possibly explain it to the paramedics?
You risked embarassment of legendary proportions.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
"Well officer... you see... I was out in the back yard, and I started to get hot. So I took my pants off you see... And then I realized that my keys were in the pants so I bent down..."
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