Ok, here it is.
Little background story about myself to help understand the story and bit about myself to help you understand the story little better.
I had a bit of a rough childhood, my parents got divorced when I was 7 and I lived by myself near my relatives with my younger sister for a year then moved in with my grandmother who couldn't stand the fact that young kids were living by themselves and that no adults would take us in. (she raised 13 sons and 2 grand kids and she refused to take any more in)
I have never been to aquarium when I was young because my dad was out of country at all times being a photographer for national geographics then later on overseer adviser for photo at carnival cruise line when they were first getting into photos. So most of my childhood, I saw my dad maybe 7 days out of the year and after my parents got a messy divorce, my mom left and we were stuck by ourselves and missed out chances to go to nice places.
Enough of that and fast forward back to when my grandmother took me in.
My grandmother always loved nature. She kept trees in her small apartment and had a small brick pond since her house with baby kois and 2 other small tanks with whole bunch of neon tetras and palys and I was instantly in love. I quickly became her favorite because I was out going, helped her clean the tank, catch the baby fish, feed the fish and rub my grandma's back after maintaining the tank. (she was a heavy set lady)
One Saturday morning, I woke up and I believe this was the first week of me being there.
I woke up got out to the living room where the small pond was and was staring at the fish swimming around and ofcourse, kois all swam towards me expecting food.
I then noticed that black specks on the fish.. if you are thinking uh oh, you thought right.
Me, being a great grandson that I am, I decide that they are dirt specs and all of them need washing.
I grab a huge towel and spread in on the floor then one by one laid the kois side by side for some towel scrubbing.
I got all the fish out and started to scrub them when my aunt came out to cook breakfast for the family and then screamed when she saw me. (around 7 something in the morning)
At first, I scared her because she didn't expect anyone to be up so early and then at what I was doing.
She said that the fish was gasping for air and begging her to take them out of their misery. She made me put everything back, clean up and to take a shower because I smelled like fish. By this time, my grandmother was up and about and heard what I had done. When I got out of shower, she smacked me in my back and started to lecture me then she asked, "what were you thinking?" and when I replied, but grandma, they were dirty and I wanted to clean them for you, she quite down a bit smiled and hugged me and explained that they were specs in their skin. I honestly don't remember if I killed any of her koi but I remember my grandmother's eyes and how we have gotten close after that incident.
Thanks for reading and have a good one as always guys.
