Last Saturday I, quite unfortunately, won about ten goldfish at one of my visit schools' festivals. The kids dragged me into their classrooms and made me compete. I usually play along because they'd be disappointed if I refuse but I ALWAYS hope I'll lose! Only this time I just kept winning. I ended up with 10 goldfish - it would have been more, only I stopped playing!! So I brought the poor little devils home and, remembering back to my first year and three OTHER goldfish unfortunate enough to be won by me (Jaws 1, 2 and 3 all died within a week), I immediately headed out and bought a tank, fish food and a bubbly thing, as well as some stones and plastic tree things for the bottom!
The ungrateful little bastards - 6 of them have already floated belly up to the top of the tank!! SIX!! Can you believe it?! I feel like a mass murderer... what the hell else do they want from me? I gave them a nice home, bought them toys and food and they repay me by DYING?! It was a mini goldfish death fest. Every day I'd come home to find another dead or dying one in the tank. Am hoping the remaining four ganbarre their way through. So far they seem genki and even come swimming to glass whenever I come home from school, they immediately head to the top of the tank and blow bubbles, begging for food. So cute!
I tell you, dogs are a lot less maintenance than frikking goldfish! Give me a doggy any day!
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You did remember to leave the water to stand overnight so the chlorine evaporated didn't you?
And where, pray tell, was I supposed to leave them in the meantime?! You seem to know more about this stuff than me, Martin! Would you like four ailing goldfish?
in the bag they came in!
and did you ease them in first, getting them used to the temperature?
Okay then Justine, as you, Martin and the WHOLE world seem to know so much more about goldfish than me; I am now offering the remaining TWO goldfish to you!! Interested?!
you're down to two now?!?! my gawd Nat. you know, i think it's because you rap on the glass. i saw you do it, don't deny it.
Noooo they get all dodgy and listless and then, the next thing you know, Goldfish Bowl in the Sky!!! Stupid fish!
i already have a pet quail.
he might eat them.
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