A couple of weeks ago, my wife decides she wants to take us on a nature walk. I hate nature, but I conceed. We take our kids and head out. It had rained the night before, and there were puddles everywhere. On our way back, my oldest noticed flooded tire tracts and in that water were hundreds of tadpoles. He was convinced that they were all going to die because he assumed another car would come by and run them over. So to try and be a good dad, I we t to the car, retrieved a jug of water, emptied it, then filled it with the polliwogs. I get them home and make them an aquarium, using a plastic storage bin. That night I read up on how to properly care for them and do everything it takes to keep them alive, from chopping up and freezing lettuce to buying a turkey baster and jugs of distilled water to keep the water clean. Everything was going just fine until today.
Because I wanted to be cheep, I stupidly used tap water and added that fish tank water balancing crap. They were swimming fine for awhile, then all of them settled down at the bottom of the bin. It's been 3 hours; none of them have moved. It's cold and raining today, so I told my kids that their little friends like to stay still to save energy because tadpoles are coldblooded.
So basically I'm a murderer and a liar. And later, when the kids are asleep, I'll have to dump these carcasses in a pond with the fishies.
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