So, after my previous post, I spoke with several people, all of whom were aghast at my behavior. I know. I'm evil. What can I say? But, in what has to be a strange, morbid coincidence, a few people asked the following question:
"Did you at least step on it?"
Excuse me? Did I hear you correctly? WHO STEPS ON BIRDS???????????? Seriously. I may be mean and evil, but even I know that you DON'T STEP ON BIRDS!!!!! The justification for this was that I would have been putting the thing out of it's misery. Maybe so. Probably not. I think that death by squishing is probably just as bad as death by heatstroke.
Second of all, there is a size factor when it comes to stepping on things. For example, while it is perfectly acceptable to step on an ant, stepping on a Tarantula, something that could, if you missed, come back and do serious damage to you, is NOT advised. If something is the size of your FOOT, it is probably not a good idea TO STEP ON IT!!!! Aside from the obvious harm to which you are subjecting yourself by stepping on so large a thing, there is the ICK factor. Little bugs are not so icky to squish. Imagine the mess with something larger.
So, while I have not necessarily justified my actions of yesterday in which I did not rescue the bird, I think I may have effectively justified my decision to NOT STEP ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.
OOOOH THE POWER!!! The absolutely intoxicatingly wonderful power!! The unbelievable mental torture that only a BIG SISTER wields. AND THEN THE ETERNAL GRATITUDE earned as that same power wielding Big Sister garners by slowly letting the dangling younger sibling,
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I do hope you know that my entire scolding was laced with huge amounts of sarcasm and a lots of tongue in cheek!! I really do feel for you and the situation. I hate to say that I probably would have handled myself the exact same way!!!
Ahem. LOTS of tongue in cheek? Does Rodge know about this?
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