The best reason for shoe trees?

[Studio27]

This is the best thread I've seen in days. Thank you.

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

But better a bat than a scorpion, I guess.

Had this happen once. I have no idea how I wasn't stung. That said, I may have rather it been a bat...

 

[bengal-stripe]

Originally Posted by rob

.......my toe was greeted by a bat. The bat, now deceased,
Did you have to drive a wooden stick through the heart???

 

[johnny_flapjack]

Originally Posted by JamesT

Is anyone else reminded of the movie "black sheep"?


I was thinking of The Great Outdoors w/ Dan Akroyd and John Candy. "It had fangs. About two pounds I think."

 

[JLibourel]

Originally Posted by bengal-stripe

Did you have to drive a wooden stick through the heart???

As a point of interest, Dracula was offed by having a good ol' all-American bowie knife driven into his heart (by a dying American) while he was simultaneously decapitated by an Englishman wielding a kukri.

Odd that the bat turned up in your loafer. I didn't think they like to get on the ground at all. Despite their being occasional vectors of rabies, I like bats. They add a touch of magic and mystery to the night, and they do wonderful work controlling insects. They don't seem to be common in my neck of the woods. In 13 years of walking my dogs by night, I don't recall ever having glimpsed a bat--I have seen raccoons, foxes, coyotes, skunks, opossums and any number of birds, but no bats, sadly.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by EL72

It could have been worse. What if that happened with a hat?

My grandmother once had a bat get caught in her hairnet. They feared it was rabid because it was out at odd hours.

 

[well-kept]

I once was talking to a farmer about such things. He told me, too graphically, about the day he pitched a load of hay into a cart - a snake fell out of the hay - and down through his open collar - into his shirt where it proceeded to writhe. Is still remember his summation: "I damn near died."

 

[JLibourel]

Did the farmer tell you what kind of snake it was? Not a venomous one, I hope for his sake?

 

[Manton]

I once came home from school and found a bat writhing on my driveway. I went inside, got a hamper, put it over the bat, and called animal control. When my mother got home from work, I explained what happened. She said that was the first instance in her life when she thought I might actually be able some day to move out, live on my own, and make a living. It was obviously a very good moment for her.

 

[Tastethesoup]

Originally Posted by Manton

I once came home from school and found a bat writhing on my driveway. I went inside, got a hamper, put it over the bat, and called animal control. When my mother got home from work, I explained what happened. She said that was the first instance in her life when she thought I might actually be able some day to move out, live on my own, and make a living. It was obviously a very good moment for her.


Heh, wait til I show mom the bee I caught in this jar.