moby
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On one of the other discussion threads there was a funny story about tricking an innocent bystandered into smelling the protein skimmer.(How funny!)
And it dawned on me we discuss a lot of serious issues here and seldom get to laugh at ourselves and share it with others who can relate. So, lets hear your funny fish stories or experiences. Never hurts to laugh at yourself and laugh with others.
I'll start.
About ten years ago I had an all agressive tank with all the typical stuff; lions, groupers and eels.
I came home from work tired and hot from a typical Arizona summer. I got into the shower and was just getting lathered up with shampoo when my wife yelled for me to "come quick!"
I was worried something horrible was going on by the way she screamed. So into the living room I ran, shampoo in hair with a towel around my waist. As I sprinted into the room I saw my 4 foot snowflake eel writhing on the carpet!
Now this was not a first time event as we had named him "Houdini" and he could escape any effort to keep him detained. But this was a little different.
I began trying to wrestle him back into the tank. Have you ever tried to grab a wet eel with wet hands? How about with shampoo running into your burning eyes? Not an easy task. He was doing his best to bite the sh*t out of me while I wrapped the towel around him, you know the towel I had around my waist.
So here I am butt
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, in the living room, shampoo in my eyes and blindly trying to capture one very unhappy eel! Could this be any worse? :thinking:
Yes.
My neighbors wife, my wifes best friend, decided to make one of her unscheduled and unannounced visits. Talk about a kodak moment! I will never forget the look on her face as she opened the door yelling "hello!" Then the dead silence as everyone in the room fully realized what they were seeing. A grown man, an eel and both of us as
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as the day we were born.
The only good thing about this is she now calls before a visit.
We laugh and talk about it to this day!
Moby
And it dawned on me we discuss a lot of serious issues here and seldom get to laugh at ourselves and share it with others who can relate. So, lets hear your funny fish stories or experiences. Never hurts to laugh at yourself and laugh with others.
I'll start.
About ten years ago I had an all agressive tank with all the typical stuff; lions, groupers and eels.
I came home from work tired and hot from a typical Arizona summer. I got into the shower and was just getting lathered up with shampoo when my wife yelled for me to "come quick!"
I was worried something horrible was going on by the way she screamed. So into the living room I ran, shampoo in hair with a towel around my waist. As I sprinted into the room I saw my 4 foot snowflake eel writhing on the carpet!
Now this was not a first time event as we had named him "Houdini" and he could escape any effort to keep him detained. But this was a little different.
I began trying to wrestle him back into the tank. Have you ever tried to grab a wet eel with wet hands? How about with shampoo running into your burning eyes? Not an easy task. He was doing his best to bite the sh*t out of me while I wrapped the towel around him, you know the towel I had around my waist.
So here I am butt
[hr]
, in the living room, shampoo in my eyes and blindly trying to capture one very unhappy eel! Could this be any worse? :thinking:
Yes.
My neighbors wife, my wifes best friend, decided to make one of her unscheduled and unannounced visits. Talk about a kodak moment! I will never forget the look on her face as she opened the door yelling "hello!" Then the dead silence as everyone in the room fully realized what they were seeing. A grown man, an eel and both of us as
[hr]
as the day we were born.
The only good thing about this is she now calls before a visit.
We laugh and talk about it to this day!
