In our early years of marriage, we lived in southern California. Mitch traveled a lot and I taught and went to school a lot. We were busy people. We also had fish. Fish are Mitch's thing. We had a salt water aquarium when we lived down south, and when we decided to put up our aquarium again in this house, we went with fresh water. My husband is a nature lover, bird-watcher extraordinaire, great-white-hunter and all that. He is incredibly smart and loves to study things that don't really matter to the rest of us. Case in point: fish. I really have no idea how he got started on this, but it was sometime in his youth. He had an aquarium, he studied, blah, blah, blah.
Mitch recently subscribed to a fish magazine. He reads it like I read CK. Crazy. I'm sure he thinks I'm crazy, too!
So, anyway, in our early years of marriage, Mitch went on trips. I was supposed to care for the fish. You know, give them their pinch of food and all that. Well, on more than one occasion (WAY more than one), Mitch would come home to find a floater at the top of the tank. Oops.
Last night, Mitch came home from a 4 day business trip. This morning, he asks me, "Did you feed the fish?"
Uh. Oops.
Don't worry, though. No floaters.
See? This is why I don't have any pets. Except fish.
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Magical Wizard Gnomies
4 hours ago
LOL on sharing this! That could be me, too. Hubby got into fish when the girls were younger. Thought "they'd" like it. Knew I grew up with a salt walter fish tank. Thought I would be the one to do the upkeep. Um no...been there, done that. (same thing with the quick set pool in the back yard...thought I'd do the upkeep on that since we had an inground pool when I grew up...that would be another um, NO!)
ReplyDeleteGlad there weren't any floaters. The fish probably realize they are on their own when the fishmaster goes away. Did he count them and were all of them still there? LOL
I'm happy to hear the fish are still kickin after 4 days of no food. That brings up a couple of random thoughts:
ReplyDeleteThought #1: Fish have short-term memories, so they won't hold a grudge.
Thought #2: For humans, remember the Rule of Thumb "You can live 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 hours without shelter in the snow"
I have similar pet caring skills as you lol. We have just recently got DS a fish and in 4 days we were told the fish was overfed and is now on a restricted diet. It has been a number of weeks and apparently the water still isn't healthy enough for another.
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