November 7, 2008
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The Squirrel Incident
I don't know about you, but when I think about wild animals, I think they pretty well know what they're doing. They don't mess up too often. They've been around for a while and are good at what they do. This view changed the other day. Let me set the scene: I'm sitting outside under a tree (I kid you not) with my laptop working with MS Project (or, as I like to call it, MS MoreCrapware). It was a cloudy day, but there was no chance of rain (the best kind of day; I don't play well with sunlight). I was feeling pretty mellow. All of a sudden I heard a loud crash from the tree above me and see a squirrel hit the ground hard about two feet in front of me then dart off. After I changed my pants, I started to wonder what the heck happened. Was the squirrel purposefully trying to frighten me? Does spontaneous generation have some credence? Is it looking to terminate Sarah Connor? What!? Well, more than likely it just misjudged his inter-tree leap and plummeted to the ground. He was surprisingly calm about the fall and seemed more surprised to see a modern human actually sitting against a tree. I'm sure he "meant to do that."
Comments (3)
Was it male or female? If it was male, it could be that he was the victim of a territorial dispute and got his ass kicked out o' the tree OR he was a dominant SOB who was trying to tell you not so politely to get TF out of his realm of nuttiness. Perhaps, by standing your ground, you demonstrated that you are the ultimate terminator and quite possibly the exterminator! BWWAHHAHA! IDK. Just a theory from someone who may have just downed a mocha....
I've seen squirrels in my trees make jumps that I never would have imagined they could have made. A couple did that funny little ledge grab type thing with their front paws and swung themselves up afterwards. They are evolving with the Prince of Persia series. Srsly.
lol