"You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fart. You’re heading for a breakdown, better pull yourself apart. " - John Cooper Clarke

>Of Hedgehogs and Men

>So. My beloved, whom I love deeply and I were walking to the tramstop where she saw a clump of something between the tracks. “Oh look, it’s a hedgehog!” she said, so I went over and had a look.

“Is it a hedgehog” she asked.

I gave it a huge kick down the track as I replies, “Yes”.

“Is it alive?”

I gave it another boot down the track. “Yes”.

Then I looked at her and saw that she didn’t appear to see that I was kicking a live hedgehog down the tramlines. I couldn’t keep it up and started to laugh. “No, it’s not a hedgehog, it’s just a bit of tree root”.

This is how we pass the time, waiting for a tram.

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This entry was written by Zoe, posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 at 8:24 am, and filed under 1.

8 Comments

  1. a
    Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    Q, Have you tried shopping with the myopic partner who has forgotten her glasses? When she asks you to read the price tag, always add a nought. Time passes faster and your load is lighter. Fun.too. Sometimes it’s worth hiding the glasses before you leave the house…….
    Regards
    A

  2. Burton
    Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 at 9:06 am | Permalink

    Talking of small roundish animals , how’s Herman doing – not heard much about him recently?

  3. Invader_Stu
    Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink

    for a moment I thought the reply to “Is it alive?” was going to be “Not any more.”

  4. Mr. Nighttime
    Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    Well, at least it wasn’t a clump of something else that would have stuck to your boot…

  5. johng
    Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

    LMAO!

  6. The Unexpected Traveller
    Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

    I tend to look at the small and pointless posters and ads stuck next to the tram stops … makes for entertaining reading some times:
    http://unexpectedtraveller.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/animal-intelligence/

  7. guyana gyal
    Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    She was just humouring you, la la la.

  8. Keith
    Posted Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    Even bits of tree roots have feelings y’know!