12-11-2020, 07:37 PM
O.K. When I was a kid we would trade all kinds of stuff. Baseball cards, bikes all kinds of stuff. One day I traded a frog in a cube of acrylic for a baby raccoon. It was cute as hell and me and my brothers loved him. We named him "Bandit" He did everything with us, climbed trees, rode on our bikes, took walks.
My Dad was a Truck driver and was gone for weeks at a time. One time when he came back we had a surprise for him. Yup, Bandit. He was in the living room eating ice cream and me and my 3 brothers walked in with this thing and reluctantly let us put it on his lap. He got used to it and I guess it wasn't so bad because we were all laughing and having a good ole time playing with him.
My Dad had grown a beard and bandit scurried up his belly and started playing with it, running his fingers through it and did you know their hands look almost human! Anyways Bandit got his fingers and hands all tied up in his beard and eye to eye with my dad got pissed and started growling and baring his teeth all kinds of weird stuff.
My Dad was starting to freak out because I guess he had never been face to face with a growling teeth baring Raccoon before.
He starts saying and yelling GET THIS THING OFF ME!!! and my Mother comes in and says "You kids get that thing off your Dad!!! So we did and ran out with bandit.
The next day he took it and went for a drive and dropped it off in the local state park, I guess Bandit was starting to go wild.
I still miss that little critter.
My Dad was a Truck driver and was gone for weeks at a time. One time when he came back we had a surprise for him. Yup, Bandit. He was in the living room eating ice cream and me and my 3 brothers walked in with this thing and reluctantly let us put it on his lap. He got used to it and I guess it wasn't so bad because we were all laughing and having a good ole time playing with him.
My Dad had grown a beard and bandit scurried up his belly and started playing with it, running his fingers through it and did you know their hands look almost human! Anyways Bandit got his fingers and hands all tied up in his beard and eye to eye with my dad got pissed and started growling and baring his teeth all kinds of weird stuff.
My Dad was starting to freak out because I guess he had never been face to face with a growling teeth baring Raccoon before.
He starts saying and yelling GET THIS THING OFF ME!!! and my Mother comes in and says "You kids get that thing off your Dad!!! So we did and ran out with bandit.
The next day he took it and went for a drive and dropped it off in the local state park, I guess Bandit was starting to go wild.
I still miss that little critter.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.