TheGoofster
Old Foggie
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Todays poll question is:
Have you ever owned Sea Monkeys (AKA floating pieces of dust)?
When we were younger, my brother and I once convinced our parents to let us send in the back of a comic book, and a couple of bucks for our very own magical world of Sea Monkeys. So we sent in the required elements, and waited for a few weeks, every day running to the mail box, anxiously awaiting our new pets.
Finally one day THEY came. With breathless nervousness we opened the envelope, and lovingly placed them inside their new home, a glass fish bowl. For once we weren't fighting. We were so excited about this wonderful adventure we were about to embark on, that nothing else mattered. They weren't His sea monkeys, or my sea monkeys, they were OUR sea monkeys. We finally found something that we could take care of together.
We had a little bit of trouble seeing as the Sea Monkeys began mixing with the water, because our faces were so close that our breath began to fog up the glass. We waited for the amazing transformation to take place. Waited for our new pets to start frockling around in their glass home, just like it showed on the back of the comic book. Waited for something to happen, and yet all we saw was a bunch of dust-like particles floating around the water. What happened, did they mistakingly send us the wrong package?
It wasn't until a couple of hours later, after nothing else happened that we finally decided to read the instructions, and found out in the small print that the actuall Sea Monkeys were a lot smaller than they appeared on the back of the ad.
Well, we waited a couple of days to see if anything else would happen. It didn't so eventually we just flushed the whole community of floating dust down the toilet and went back to our normal routine of fighting over whose bottle of soda was whose.
Have you ever owned Sea Monkeys (AKA floating pieces of dust)?
When we were younger, my brother and I once convinced our parents to let us send in the back of a comic book, and a couple of bucks for our very own magical world of Sea Monkeys. So we sent in the required elements, and waited for a few weeks, every day running to the mail box, anxiously awaiting our new pets.
Finally one day THEY came. With breathless nervousness we opened the envelope, and lovingly placed them inside their new home, a glass fish bowl. For once we weren't fighting. We were so excited about this wonderful adventure we were about to embark on, that nothing else mattered. They weren't His sea monkeys, or my sea monkeys, they were OUR sea monkeys. We finally found something that we could take care of together.
We had a little bit of trouble seeing as the Sea Monkeys began mixing with the water, because our faces were so close that our breath began to fog up the glass. We waited for the amazing transformation to take place. Waited for our new pets to start frockling around in their glass home, just like it showed on the back of the comic book. Waited for something to happen, and yet all we saw was a bunch of dust-like particles floating around the water. What happened, did they mistakingly send us the wrong package?
It wasn't until a couple of hours later, after nothing else happened that we finally decided to read the instructions, and found out in the small print that the actuall Sea Monkeys were a lot smaller than they appeared on the back of the ad.
Well, we waited a couple of days to see if anything else would happen. It didn't so eventually we just flushed the whole community of floating dust down the toilet and went back to our normal routine of fighting over whose bottle of soda was whose.
but yeah you flushed them too soon. I may have to go buy more sea monkeys now
He had never had them as a kid and, as some of you said, it's a rite of passage so I couldn't let him miss out.
