31 Days, 31 Memories - Day 12

[bironic]

12. Elementary School

Our first-grade teacher discovered that a book was missing from our classroom library. She tried offering rewards for its return and assured us that no-one would be punished for having borrowed it for so long. I sat there and must have wondered who would take the book and then not admit it. At the end of the year when we were cleaning out our things to take home, I found the book in the back of my desk.

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[kabal42.livejournal.com]

I'll just throw in an extra memory as well then.
See those sounds of rustling always jerks me awake as well. My story's a bit different, though.
I had gerbils at a time, two nice black males called Byron and Arthur.
At the same time, a mouse lived in my wall for a few weeks, rustling about. And suddenly it stopped. Then, one night, I came home somewhat intoxicated and went to bed. I was kept awake by this rustling sound and thought that the mouse had to be back in the wall - and then I was wide awake. My mice. What about them! (I called them mice even though they weren't *S*) And sure enough, they'd broken out. It took me forever to capture them again, especially Arthur was a sneaky little thing - and I was rather drunk...
Nowadays I have a mouse, a hamster and four rats, so I am still alert to any break-outs.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

A gerbil named Byron! I knew I liked you. If you hadn't been, er, 'somewhat intoxicated' at the time, you might perhaps have been able to utter a battle cry of "Byron has escaped!"

Now I have a mental image of you stumbling around your room lunging after a gerbil that keeps skittering out of the way.

Maddy had a hamster before she moved to the UK that got out last year for what, a few days? And then if I'm not mistaken she kept a book over the cage.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

I would have! And I'm sure I thought it *G*

That mental image is not all wrong... Byron hid in a corner and was trapped, while Arthur ran under the bed and kept evading my atempts to catch him.

Our hamster escaped a few days ago, but was caught right away. I but a book on the gerbil cage after that night and now there's a huge roll on duct tape weighing down the door to the hamster cage.

I've had other literary pets, btw. My first rat was William (Shakespeare, Gibson and Blake) and there's been Poe as well. Then there's been characters, of course. Hyde, Nemo, Lazlo - and currently Leto. And a few musicians - Henry (Rollins) and (Peter) Murphy, both current. And assorted others too, like Stalin, Samson, Jack, Magni and Napoleon *S*
I guess the hamster gets the prize though, he's known as Enigma Puggle von Zeppelin.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Love it! A very big name for a hamster.