I was relaying this fun fact to Sam and said, "I wonder if that's why the fish all died."
"What fish?"
"You remember that year that the church's kids club gave live gold fish as prizes at the carnival? And we came home with about a half dozen? By the end of the week they were all dead. It seemed that every time I changed the water another one went belly up. I wonder if our water killed them."
The kids, sitting around the dinner table, were listening. Becky said, "or maybe it's because we picked them up every morning."
"What?"
"We would pick them up and carry them around every morning before you got up."
"Well, yeh. That would kill them. And here I was feeling guilty all these years for killing my children's prize fish. Thanks a lot."
Maybe I'll be inspired to go buy some goldfish now. I've honestly thought that I was a certified fish killer for these many long years. Nice.
13 comments:
ROFL! I can't believe they carried them around! Makes me wonder what my kids do that I don't know about.
Our fish get used to the well water. I killed a couple by adding bottled water one time.
OK, that? Is hilarious!
I won one of those carnival fish once as a child and my family was SURE it would be dead in days and instead it lived for years and grew to an enormous size. We actually suspect it was a gold river carp - it was THAT big.
Oy. I just can't get past the part that they were up and not destroying things, apart from killing fish, while you slept. SLEPT IN!. I need that. Sigh.
OMG, that is sooo funny!
Oh, you poor dear! My cousin's fish met with an untimely death during a nap under her pillow... Life with young children is hard on the goldfish! :/
You need to start worrying when you start getting notes from the teachers at school saying that they're bringing them to school in their pockets. ;-)
Bwahahaha! Oh Karen. This is priceless. I'm so glad they told you!
Hee hee hee! That is a good one! Imagine picking up fish and carrying them around! Only kids!
OMG! That is FREAKIN' HILARIOUS! I am so glad they came clean and you can now venture back into the world of goldfish.
And thank you for reminding me why I should stand firm and continue to deny my children (and husband) the goldfish that they so badly want.
That is hilarious. I guess you should be glad they didn't end up in their pockets.
Carrying fish around. Huh. Really? What DID possess them?
And hey... at least they 'fessed up instead of just looking at each other and giggling.
NICE!
I still blame Sam, though. Unless he used dechlorinator, that's probably what did it.
Personally, I just love how Becky casually dropped that little tidbit in there. :)
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