Free the Gerbils....save the world. (for my sister Bonnie)

Bonnie was telling me she did not remember how the freeing of the gerbils came to pass....only that it happened.  So For you Blue.....

The story is kind of boring and slow.....but this is how it goes.

I was maybe 7 or 8 and Bonnie was 4 or 5.  We were living in Goose Creek, South Carolina.  (And if that wasn't country enough for ya'  i went to Boulder Bluff Elementary school)

I wanted some pets.    I started with 2 gerbils.  They were Mary and Cantalope (don't ask).  But soon I discovered that Cantalope was not a girl....as all Cantalopes are.....yes....it's true....this is my story.  So I renamed Cantalope....now Pants.  Because boys wear Pants.  It was a good man name.  So Mary and Pants begat Snoopy, Delta, Dawn, and Hippie.  Who Begat Bob, Hope, Mr. Rogers, Steve (for the Million Dollar man), Jackie, Sabrina, Kelly, Jill and Boseley.  Well I think Jill and Mr. Boseley were getting busy because they begat Cindy, Jan, Marsha, Greg, Peter, Bobby and Alice.  And then I stopped naming them because my bedtime put a crimp in my television watching and I was running out of names.  They begat....a whole lot. 

 I actually purchased my mutt dog Boots with said gerbils.  There was a man who had hunting dogs and he had the runt dog and I wanted him.  He also had a python.  BUT what he told me was that he liked gerbils.  A lot.  He thought they were cute.   So I traded 20 gerbils for a dog.  Seemed fair at the time.

Welllll.  I loved my dog.  And the man seemed to love my gerbils.  He would come for some more every week.  One day.....he came and and asked did I want to see his puppy farm.  AWWWW yeah.  Snoopy came from a puppy farm and I was checking it out.  Me and 20 gerbil friends.

Well.  Let me tell you.  I did not like that man no more after that visit.  Sure he had a lot of cute puppies.  But he also had a python.  Who happened to live with gerbils.  I thought....well that is nice  My gerbils have a nice home with a snake.....to ....pro..tect....them.   AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!  

I came to the puppy farm with great joy and I left with a very upset frame of mine.  And then I began to think of what I must do. 

Free....the ......gerbils.  Then they would have a chance.

So I enlisted my sister...Bonnie C.   who then was Bonnie Mc.....like me.

I put her on the washing machine to reach the top cage.  I worked the bottom cage.

Be free.  Be free.  Run Away! Run Away!!!!!!!!

Heather's list of Happy Folk:

Heather...happy at first.

Bonnie....thrilled beyond belief.

Mom.....not at all happy.

Dad.......not happy....but he was laughing....despite his unhappiness.

Boots...the dog....SUPER HAPPY.....because Gerbils....they make tasty and nutrious treats

ME......MORTIFIED!!!!!!! oh my GOD what have I done.

That is the Gerbil story.  There are actually more gerbil tails to be told.  but for now this will suffice.