The Royal Adventures of Count Fishy-Fish
June 23, 2006
So, if you read yesterday’s post, we acquired a betta fish during our errands yesterday. What I didn’t tell you was that after we bought the fish, I still needed to go to my allergist, whose offices are inside a local hospital and get my weekly allergy shots.
(As an aside, they upped my dosage this week, and both arms immediately started itching. Now they are so bruised and puffy. The girl who gave me the shots looked at my arms before I left and said that they didn’t look bruised. They don’t look bruised, but lordy do they feel bruised!
But I digress.)
So, this being Florida, and 90 degree heat, I quickly realized that if we left the fish in it’s container and left it in the car; by the time we got back, it would be poached fish. This meant that we had to bring the fish in with us. It was amazingly transportable; it was in a cup with a hole in the lid.
There I was, my boys, arguing while they walked over who was going to play with the new GameBoy we just bought; and me, carrying a red fish in a cup in my hand. The looks started immediately. Some laughed. Some shot quizzical looks and asked me “where we got that”. One man, however, shot me what I could only decipher was a look of utter disgust when I got off the elevator on the allergist’s floor. So this is what I said to him in response to his look:
“Listen, if all those celebrities can carry their little puffy dogs around in little handbags all over the place, why can’t I carry my fish in a cup? We’re starting a trend here!”
I think he died laughing.
Good thing we were in a hospital so he could get immediate attention.
The Count was the hit of the allergist’s office. A nurse actually fish-sat (she asked if she could!) while I took Scamp to the bathroom. I would have brought The Count, but I didn’t think that would have been a good way to start off our relationship, you know?
It might have given him a complex or something.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:04 pm
hahahah love the way you made the mean man laugh
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June 24th, 2006 at 10:01 am
LOL! Loved the story. Take care. Dani
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