Armadillo

[wal66]

Armadillo

So I am mowing around the treatment plant this morning and I am out by “The Pond of Death” and I see something swimming in the direction of where I am mowing. As it gets closer I realize it’s an armadillo. If you don’t know what an armadillo is, it a giant rat-like creature with heavy, thick plating on its back. You’ve seen them thousands of times just usually in their road kill form. So anyway I continue mowing cause after all it’s just an armadillo. As I am making my second pass around “The Pond of Death” this poor little armadillo seems to be frantically trying to get my attention. This time it isn’t so easy to just ignore the little guy. I know that if I continue mowing he is gonna drown. Now an armadillo serves no real purpose in life but it is a life form and it is plainly obvious he is terrified and will die if I don’t do something.

So I go and get my “Pool Screen of Life”. I call it that because if there is a “Pond of Death” then in order to keep balance in my life there must be a “Pool Screen of Life”. I go back to the pond and the little guy is frantically trying to get some traction on the slick liner in order to get himself out. It’s not gonna happen cause the liner is too slick and the edge is too steep. I reach the “Pool Screen of Life” out and without even an attempt to be scared by it I scoop the rather large as it turns out armadillo out. He practically jumped into the net. He didn’t actually but it seemed as such. I got him to the top and because of how I placed the net down he was kind of trapped inside. As I was trying to get the net untangled the armadillo burst forward and ripped a hole right through my “Pool Screen of Life” and scurried off.

That saved armadillo will probably be road kill tonight but at least he didn’t drown in “The Pond of Death” this morning.

[wal66]

Wanna see if the moral of this story, albeit a true story is picked up by anyone.

[mrmarket]

This is why I like you Wal. I would have done the same thing.

[Sledge187]

Two hours later this "armadillo" runs across the street when a new driver serves to avoid it. The driver then slams into the driver next to her and they both go flying into the next lane when an 18 wheeler hits both cars head on. The 18 wheeler flips over causing it to crush several smaller cars in the process. After what seems like an endless amount of explosions the death toll hits 37 but the "armadillo" is not one of the victims. Survivors at the scene reported seeing the "aramdillo" running from the scene with a partially torn pool net in it's mouth.

[wal66]

Sledge I see what you did there. You went Final Destination on us there. A life was meant to be lost and if said life is spared then another or even more deaths must in turn take it's place. Very good job.

There still is a moral in the original story though. Maybe many but one in particular.

[36mafia]

no good deed goes unpunished

to thank you for saving its life, that cunt of an animal ripped a hole in your pool screen

[wal66]

Failed attempt I guess. Saving armadillos and finding morals in everyday life events are very poular.

[36mafia]

wtf is the answer

[wal66]

Oh, sorry 36mafia.

Sometimes doing the right thing won't gain you in rewards of material interest nor will doing the right thing even make a difference. Sometimes we do the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do.

[36mafia]

its human nature. what separates us from the animals.
but people have different perspectives on life and i still think that armadillo is a cunt