*points to icon* entirely TOO appropriate

So I live in the middle of the city. Main Street is two streets down. No one ever believes me when I tell them that we have possums in our neighborhood, and today is no exception.

My mother called me about an hour ago and told me to slowly walk out the back door and carefully peek into our garbage can. She wanted to know if there was a baby skunk in it. Which leads to me saying, You want me to get sprayed?!  And of course she told me that as long as I didn't scare it, it wouldn't spray me. Like that made me feel any better. But to be honest, I was quite excited to be catching a skunk. =)

So I go outside with my mom still on the phone, preparing to get skunkified. But when I look into the garbage can there is no skunk. Just a very wet, very cold possum.  =(
So I put the phone down and started to slowly lower the trash can on to it's side. The possum barred his teeth and growled at me. I thought that must have been a good sign. Once I got the can on to it's side, I bolted back up onto my stairs and into the house to watch, but he didn't come out. I got worried. My mom said she'd call me in an hour and we'd go check to see if he took off.

I hung the phone up and went back into the kitchen to take my medicine, but not before looking out the kitchen window. To my relief, the possum had made his way out of the water-filled garbage can and had hidden under the skate ramps where he proceeded to try to dry / clean himself up.

All in all, today has started out amazing. I saved a life within minutes of waking up. That's a lot for me to accomplish first thing in the morning. lol Sadly tho, no pictures. So once again, no one will believe that there are possums in the middle of Concord, New Hampshire.

the end.

12/01/08

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Saturday I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In July I gave and_a_feeling a kidney (1000 points). Last week I set punksoul's puppy on fire (-66 points). In April I caught a purse-snatcher who stole beyondthethorns's purse (30 points). In June I put money in zacreation's expired parking meter (14 points). Overall, I've been nice (902 points). For Christmas I deserve an Easy-Bake Oven! Sincerely, writefiction

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