Moose and squirrel

[superbadgirl]

So, I just walked up the hill to Trader Joe's. Not very exciting, except about three blocks up I encountered a red squirrel. It ran right up to me and froze, like squirrels do when they pretend they're invisible (and if they pretend to be invisible, they are invisible) so the gigantic human-creature doesn't hurt them. I expected it to scamper away, which is usually step number 2 during a typical encounter.

It didn't scamper. It looked up at me and I looked down at it. It looked away, then looked back up.

"Hi," I said. "How are you today?"

It didn't respond verbally, but it did nudge my foot with its nose and looked up at me again. I felt a bit like I was being weighed and measured. If that's the case, I think I passed, because the squirrel still didn't run away, even though I took a step. Instead, it nudged my foot again...and then started climbing up my leg.

"No kidding, really?" I said. "For real?"

The squirrel descended my leg. Sized me up some more. Leapt at my other leg and climbed up to my forearm, where it sat for quite a while and looked at me.

It was then that I had a vision of it either 1) jumping on my face and trying to scratch my eyeballs out or 2) starting to talk, calling me Bullwinkle.

I carried on to the grocery store.

Comments

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

HEEE!! The squirrels have marked you as one of theirs, so that when the day of Squirrle judgment comes and they take over the world, you will be spared!!!

[superbadgirl]

It's funny you should say that. Since my family is all back in Minnesota, we tend to send group emails. In the latest batch, my brother J was being all weird and saying that he thought geese were up to no good. Then my sister L said the deer who habitate the little park by her house were definitely acting iffy. And I couldn't resist and added that neither the geese nor the deer were as big a threat as spiders.

We might all have been wrong. It's the squirrels! ;)

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha. Oh, the spiders are definitely planning something, but I think my money is on the squirrels. I mean--spiders have already aroused suspicion, being all creepy and *shudder* hairy, but the squirrels are all cute and cuddly. Most people won't see their evil until it is TOO LATE.