Yesterday, our family was sharing Chick-fil-A with a neighbor. Cullen happily crawled around the room opening and closing drawers, playing with door handles, and attempting to bring the TV tray (which held our food) crashing down. We were successful at keeping the TV tray in place. However...
Suddenly, there were the following sounds: Swoosh, Bonk!, Whap!, Splash, Whap!, Splash.
It all happened very suddenly. I should note it was followed by a loud, alarmed cry on Cullen's part (see "Bonk!" above).
These sounds were those of Cullen pulling a little towel off our neighbor's dresser. The problem was that there was a small aquarium on top of the towel, with a little beta fish inside. That beta was now literally a fish out of water.
If you are wondering why there was no flop, flop sound, which you may expect in such a situation, it's because the fish lay motionless in stunned silence. He flopped eventually, and was given some new water. At last check, he was doing fine.
What is interesting about this whole episode is that, just yesterday morning, we saw a story on TV about some men who videotaped their fight with a shark off the Carolina coast. I wonder if Cullen was inspired by this to take on the beta?
3 comments:
I had assumed the "Whap Whap" was your take on the "flop flop." But if you were intentionally leaving out the "flop flop" then what action was the "whap whap" representing? Was Cullen beating the fish after he spilled it out?
The "whap" was the glass fish bowl hitting and bouncing on the floor. Not to be confused with the "bonk."
Somehow there was water in three distinct places on the carpet...that fish bowl did some bouncing. Tramatic for veryone to say the least!
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