Did I leave the gas on? No, I'm a fucking squirrel!

[ashinae]

I'm sitting here, typing up a long-ass e-mail to somebody who wanted to know about how I make my vids... and I have my music playing (Keane's "Bedshaped") and there's this... noise... coming from outside.

It sounded rather like a really pesked cat. Like the cats in this neighbourhood often are. Therefore, I ignored it. But it kept happening. And then I turned the music down a little, and listened, and thought "Damn, some little future serial killer must be torturing that cat! Shit!"

And then I caught this shadow moving, out of the corner of my eye, behind the bit of curtain pulled back. I frown, and I look and... there's this squirrel... on my windowsill... attacking my window screen!

And I sit there and stare at this monster squirrel (must have been a foot tall, at least!) and I start giggling at him. And he stops. And he looks at me "Whatchoo lookin' at, beeyotch!?" and I'm like "You're one pissed off squirrel, aren't you?" He gets up on his hind legs and starts clawing at the window screen again. "GET ME A GRAPEFRUIT! I LONG FOR A GRAPEFRUIT!" and still making these noises. I had never heard the noises a squirrel makes before! So I carefully get up and go to fetch my camera, but as I return, he turns, and climbs along the side of the house and into the cherry tree.

The end.

Comments

[thalassatx.livejournal.com]

I can't stop laughing!!!!

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yay! :) I'm glad I could bring a little bit of joy into your life. I noticed you even supplied a link in your journal! *curtseys*

[thalassatx.livejournal.com]

That just made me DIE laughing!!

[diea.livejournal.com]

Squirrels are so noisy! Especially red squirrels, but yours sounds more like a grey or fox squirrel. Still they are loud little buggers when they're angry. Did you get a pic of him? Did he put a hole in your screen?

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

He was definitely a grey squirrel. I have never been that close to one before, so had never heard the noises they make. I expected something more, well, something that didn't sound rather like a cat being brutally tortured! *G* By the time I got back with my camera, he was scaling the wall of the house to leave via our very tall cherry tree. And, fortunately, he did not rip the screen apart any worse than it already is; had he been about two inches taller, though, he probbly would have snagged the existing hole (which is covered with a few pieces of tape to keep bigger bugs out of my room) and made that worse.

[sahari.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's just too surreal.

I would also be thinking about Eddie Izzard if I saw that, after I had a heart attack, that is, and my cats started running head first at him.

S

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I suppose I wasn't as shocked as I could have been. I'm used to seeing wildlife at my window, because of the mourning doves that have been taking up residence there for years. I think the part that was the strangest was when he heard me start giggling and he just stopped and stared.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_xanthia/]

Squirrels. Are. Goddamn. Weird.

And Eddie Izzard kicks ass. Took me a moment to notice the title (I sort of ignore those sometimes).

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

People have been telling me how strange squirrels are, yet, I never realised it until today!

Eddie is my HERO. :D