A Little Death
The Kid’s favorite gerbil died tonight.
The Wife picked him out of the cage and was holding him when he leapt from her hands. He broke his back, and had to be euthanized at a vet emergency room.
A 3 week old gerbil. The Wife is wracked with guilt. I’m left to wonder Why?
Was it so much to ask? I mean, we have Taliban running around beheading teachers in front of their children. Zarqawi has followers turning themselves into explosives laden pinatas.
But the Kid’s albino gerbil just needs to leap to its death from the Wife’s hands.
I’m overreacting, but those of you who know me know what I’m saying when I say, Just what the fuck is wrong with this world? Is this really necessary?
Who needs Hell when you have Life on Earth? This is Hell.
The Wife once wondered if God had been defeated by the Devil, and that God isn’t all-powerful – Satan is.
Chad:
how are gerbils heavy enough to reach critical velocity?
11 January 2006, 2:24 pmkhomeini:
Unbelievable!
18 February 2006, 7:29 amA gerbil is nothing more than an amplified rat.
It’s a freakin’ rodent. Vermin!
Your ol’ lady must be the product of some serious intellectual inbreeding.
Get her into therapy.
MEGAN M:
My gerbil did the same thing. We took her to the vet and they vet said she had a bump in her stomach. It was cancer =[. So we got some medicine and took her home. After a few days of giving her medicine, i took her out to give her the daily dose of what i was supposed to give her. But one second after i give her the medicine, She leaps out of my hands and onto the floor. Obviously she died. Her name was Einstien. She was super smart, for a gerbil. But please, pray for her and don’t be an idiot and say “get a life” because obviously you don’t know what it’s like to lose someone really close to you.
25 September 2007, 6:55 pmScott Kirwin:
Megan
26 September 2007, 5:08 amWhat makes you think that I would say “don’t be an idiot – get a life?”
See this post:
http://therazor.org/?p=525#comments
charlie:
u had it simple. i had a black gerbil and a grey gerbil the black was the friendliest. got told they both females. had seperate them coz the grey got pregnant. the black 1 drowned it self it got seperated we had to incase it hurt the babies. then the black 1 died through seperation and the grey 1 the mother eat all 10 of her babies 2 weeks later she died. i lost 12 gerbils all 2 gether. ur wife shouldnt blame herself it was an accident waiting to happen. xx
12 April 2010, 10:29 pm