*eyes world warily*

[slipjig3]

On my way to lunch, I nearly ran over a squirrel carrying a tennis ball in its mouth.

Um, just to make sure I'm not missing anything, that's not one of the signs of the Apocalypse, is it?

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[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Sure it was a tennis ball and not a walnut?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Only if the squirrel was rolling on top of it, like a circus performer...

I've seen Action Squirrels before. They're quite entertaining, aren't they?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

If not a bit frightening, yes.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

My other Action Squirrel moment: Southeast Portland. Under trees. Walking a neighborhood street. Seeing a squirrel walking along an overhead line. Looking away. Looking back. Seeing a blur in my vision. Hearing a *wump* (not a *splat*). Seeing said squirrel on the road now, wide stance, looking ready to spring on something. Or someone. Yes, the squirrel had jumped or fallen from the line and landed on its feet. It then ran.

My eyes? Wide.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Or something. I mean, it looked like it might have been a damaged ball, which would have given it something to grip; I just want to know why.

[tinkerer.livejournal.com]

As long as it wasn't an orange tennis ball, you're okay...

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Nope. Haz-mat green.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

If it was a tennis ball, I hope the silly squirrell didn't mistake it for the motherlode of all walnuts............

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping. Maybe it had a court reservation or something.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Sure it was a tennis ball and not a lemon cucumber?

My dog thinks they're fun to play with....

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't know a lemon cucumber if I saw one, I fear. But no, this was that like-nothing-else-on-earth shade of green that you only see in tennis balls.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Heh. I got lemon cukes out the wazoo. I'd send you one, if I thought it would survive the mailing.... they look kind of like tennis balls, without the markings, and they're bright yellow.

[stagger-lee77.livejournal.com]

carrying a tennis ball? how big was this squirrel?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Squirrel-sized. As I said to someone else, it was a damaged ball, so it probably had something to grab onto, but that still doesn't explain what it waas planning on doing with the thing.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

There's a whole bit in John Hodgman's book about how different configurations of squirrels and events are signs of the apocalypse. Was this a reference to that? :)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Purely coincidental. And now that you've told me that, I'm terrified. If anyone needs me, I'll be hiding under the bed....

Unrelated:

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Ever watch Invader Zim? In the first couple of episodes, he makes it clear he's got squirrels on the brain...

Re: Unrelated:

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

I saw about five minutes of one episode, but I could not get into it, for some reason. (Then again, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac makes me break out in a rash, so that might have had something to do with it.)