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Subject: Oh Em Gee, it's story time.
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I've been appearing less frequently for a while. There are two main reasons over the past few

days, but first I'll cover many of the smaller, more superfluous reasons:

1) Job searching. Obbi is looking for employement.
2) Getting registered for school. For those of you who have done this, it takes a LONG time. It's taking me even longer because the preliminary stuff you typically do before the previous year ends I opted out of doing due to laziness.
3) Band Practice. Yes, I'm a band nerd. I go to band camp, perk up when I hear clapping, and have intellectual debates on why French Horns are better than Flutes.
4) Personal life? NEVA! Actually, with school starting back up (August 12th) so has the social scene.
5) Thief III. I rented, beat, and learned to hate the pathetic excuse for a game known as Thief III.

And now for the two main (and more interesting) reasons:

6) Sunday: My mom and I had spent most of that clowdy morning clearing out the garage. We discovered we had some guests (which is number 7), but mainly we were taking stuff we found down to GoodWill (charitable organization). We had loaded a old couch of ours into the back of her van, and it stuck out the back a bit. Her van has one of those vertically closing back doors. I was sitting in the passenger side, when she walked around the back side of the van. I hear her scream, then hit the ground.

I got out and ran around back to see her holding her head, staring up at the sky in shock with blood pooling around her. She had struck her head hard on the very corner of the open back door, and managed to split it open. She had seen the open door, tried to duck, but that cause her to hit it even harder. I run inside, grab a towel, and tie it around her head. She's unresponsive so I carry her inside, getting blood everywhere. She has thin blood since she has a very low-fat diet, and she had a bit of alcohol that morning - so that made matters worse.

I remember lifting the towel off her head to see how bad it was, thinking "God, if it's bad, I don't want to throw up on her." It was bad, but I didn't puke. It started just below the hairline and continued up an inch and a half - I couldn't see how deep it was because blood was literally pouring out. You know that large verticle vien that protrudes on some people's foreheads? Well she had split that right open.

She had a concussion, in shock, and bleeding a lot. I didn't want to call for an ambulance because if our insurance didn't cover it then it'd really -blam!- us up what with our quasi-tight economic situation. I called my dad, told him to meet me at ER (my parents are seperated), and drove her there - without a license (I have a permit). I take her inside and it's about this time that my dad shows up. She gets stitches, but had lost a lot of blood. My mom has always had extremely low blood pressure and she is SUPPOSED to take medication for it.

By the end of the day she's feeling better and, upon request, is released from the hospital and we take her home. For the rest of the night I was on concussion watch. Basically I had to stay up and check on her every two hours that night to make sure she was responsive. After concussions people have the possibility of slipping into a coma, and I was instructed to call 911 if I tried to wake her up and she wouldn't respond.

She was inactive most of that next day (she kept complaining about a huge headache), but she's feeling a lot better now. The only thing she has to worry about now is not growing hair back over where she got cut.As soon as I got home the night after that happened, I hadn't eaten all day, so I started to pig out on cookies and pumpkin pie.

NOTE: If you get queezy about blood and have seen a lot in a day, do not end the night by stuffing yourself with pumpkin pie and cookies.

That is all.

7) Our guests we found in the garage were skunks. We discovered two skunks living in our garage. In Tucson Arizona. I didn't even know they EXISTED here.
I am baffled.

During the thing sunday we had accidently trapped one of the skunks behind a cabinent. After examining it today (wednesday), I two saw little bloody paws trying to claw out from behind the cabinent. The poor guy had been trapped there for days, and was destroying his hands trying to get out.

I wanted them gone, but I wouldn't be able to get them to leave (they try to return to their territory). Animal control only deals with domestic animals, and the exterminators would have charged us $150+ bucks to take care of them. So I opted to kill them. I had a few options.

-1 Leave anti-freeze out. The PROBLEM with this was that if they ate it and got sick, they might hide somewhere in the garage then die. Rotting skunk is NOT favorable.
-2 Hunt them down and kill them. This leaves the possiblity of me getting sprayed, or them spraying stuff in the garage. Though, tomato juice neutralizes the smell (hurray google!), so this could be fixed.

I opted for option two.

Since one of the skunks was pinned nicely, I decided to end his misery. I sat down in front of the cabinent, placed my feet on it, pushed, and crushed it. It squealed, but most odd was the sound of bones breaking. He sprayed the back of the cabinent (it was cheap anyway), which was my first experiance with the smell of skunk. Wow. It smells like burning tires and death.

When I was satisfied that it was dead I moved the cabinent out, showing a relatively flat skunk (their tails are huge). Along with spraying it also managed to spray out some bodily fluids from random holes, which was lovely to clean up. I washed the wall clean (it's tough as hell to get off brick), but just decided to throw the cabinent out).

Now, the other skunk was held up in an old moving box from when we first came here earlier this year. I found the box it was hiding in (sleeping in - it was the middle of the day). It was actually wedged between two boxes - there was a smaller one inside a larger one. It was between the smaller and the larger. I stabbed it with a shovel, it sprayed the contents of the box, more rank smell. Lovely. Anyway, after a few more quick stabs it was sufficiently dead.

Both skunks are in the trash now, double wrapped in trash bags. To get rid of the smell my mom has put fabric softener in the swamp cooler water - it actually works really well.

Fin.

[Edited on 8/4/2004 10:13:46 PM]

  • 08.04.2004 10:08 PM PDT
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The hell? I just edited this!

Edit: Nevermind. Wasn't showing up for some reason.

[Edited on 8/4/2004 10:16:55 PM]

  • 08.04.2004 10:16 PM PDT
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killer

just kiding but good story

  • 08.04.2004 10:16 PM PDT
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where do you go to school?

  • 08.04.2004 10:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: The White Rider
where do you go to school?


Highschool.

Any more specific and it's private.

  • 08.04.2004 10:21 PM PDT
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heh nice sence of humer ur funny

  • 08.04.2004 10:22 PM PDT
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OMG. You're evil and sadistic.

I would've found out what food they liked, and left it outside the garage. I wouldn't have killed them. Least of all by crushin and shovel-stabbing.

I usually admire a hint of sadism, but that is just discusting.

Oh, and I hope your mom gets better.

[Edited on 8/4/2004 10:24:20 PM]

  • 08.04.2004 10:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Posted by: The White Rider
where do you go to school?


Highschool.

Any more specific and it's private.


ur only 15? im the same age as you...!

  • 08.04.2004 10:23 PM PDT
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Why do people always post personal stories on here? This is off-topic, so it's technically allowed, but still... you're not interesting.

  • 08.04.2004 10:26 PM PDT
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but why do you impersonate girls?

  • 08.04.2004 10:26 PM PDT
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That's old news. It was a practical joke, remember?

  • 08.04.2004 10:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: byrum
That's old news. It was a practical joke, remember?


no i dont remember

  • 08.04.2004 10:31 PM PDT
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homestarruner is -blam!-

  • 08.04.2004 10:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: The White Rider
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Posted by: The White Rider
where do you go to school?


Highschool.

Any more specific and it's private.


ur only 15? im the same age as you...!


No, I'm 7.

  • 08.04.2004 10:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: byrum
OMG. You're evil and sadistic.

I would've found out what food they liked, and left it outside the garage. I wouldn't have killed them. Least of all by crushin and shovel-stabbing.

I usually admire a hint of sadism, but that is just discusting.

Oh, and I hope your mom gets better.


Hippie! Killing innocent animals is fun fun fun! Not killing them is boring.

  • 08.04.2004 10:44 PM PDT
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I didn't take pleasure from it.

  • 08.04.2004 11:30 PM PDT
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You didn't? Thats no fun. Did you at least drink their blood, after heating it to a boil?

  • 08.04.2004 11:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: The White Rider
The White Rider pounds ass


I hope you choke.

  • 08.04.2004 11:52 PM PDT
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www.livejournal.com

  • 08.04.2004 11:54 PM PDT
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Man, you guys are sick. I'm not sure I could kill an innocent animal. Why didn't you just put in a box, or cage, and just drop it off somewhere else?

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Posted by: Templar Zealot
Hippie! Killing innocent animals is fun fun fun! Not killing them is boring.


I'm not against killing animal. In fact, I have done a similar thing to a mouse (useing a bb gun). I'm just against killing something so large in that crude of a way.

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Posted by: Stickman Army
Man, you guys are sick. I'm not sure I could kill an innocent animal. Why didn't you just put in a box, or cage, and just drop it off somewhere else?


yeah, that would've worked great. Live traps with food bait. Then drop them off in their natural habitat.

[Edited on 8/4/2004 11:55:48 PM]

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Posted by: byrum
Posted by: Stickman Army
Man, you guys are sick. I'm not sure I could kill an innocent animal. Why didn't you just put in a box, or cage, and just drop it off somewhere else?


yeah, that would've worked great. Live traps with food bait. Then drop them off in there natural habitat.


Yeah. Or you could drop them into a fiery pit of doom.
Muahahahaha!

Innocent? The little -blam!- infringed on Obbi's territory. Its only natural to kill trespassers. Other animals do it. That makes it alright to do. And the cruder the killing is, the better! C'mon people lets get back to our roots. Where we ran around in loin clothes, grunted, and ran down animals to bash their skulls in with clubs (of course we then ate the bloody raw meat straight from the bone, so it isn't a waste). Violence rules!

  • 08.05.2004 12:06 AM PDT
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Well Obbi, I'm glad your Mom's recovery sounds like a success.

  • 08.05.2004 9:57 AM PDT

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