Saturday, May 23, 2009

A Turtle Rears It's Ugly Head: Warning to the Squemish, This Story Involves Turds

Saturday morning proved to be a rough one for Sara. After a night of a little drinking and 4 a.m homemade hashbrowns, eggs and smoked sausage, Sara was required to give a friend a ride to work around 10 a.m. The drive there was quite uneventful, but things took a turn for the worse soon after leaving the Red Lobster parking lot.
The turtle that just a half hour earlier had retreated to it's lair, decided to make a move to the exit door. Unfortunately for Sara, she was still a ten minute car ride from home
"It was horrible. I kept thinking, I've just paid off this car," said Sara. "Now I'm going to poop in it."
As Sara drove, she considered her options for stopping and letting the turtle out. "I passed a CVS, but as I had no bra on, I quickly out ruled that. Kroger was out for the same reason, plus, I've used the bathrooms there before and there's no power in their toilet flushes." Sara said she briefly flirted with the idea of a bush outside her school, but reconsidered after realizing one of the children might find her turtle later in the week.
After getting stuck at horribly long red light, Sara was in the home stretch to her apartment. She was able to park quickly, but had a bit of a struggle shutting her seat belt into the car door. Sara hustled up the stairs and at that point she truly feared the turtle was touching cloth.
"I finally made it into the bathroom and let the turtle go to sea. The experience was finally coming to an end or so I thought."
Apparently the turtle was more giant sea turtle than baby snapper and upon flushing the toilet, the turtle started rising to the surface. Having experienced similar situations, Sara knew to turn the water off and attack with the plunger. The turtle finally returned to sea and the toilet went back to functioning.
Sara spent the next few hours recovering on the couch with a 90210 min-marathon. She hopes this will be the end of the trauma, despite spotting a baby turtle still clinging to the toilet bowl on her next visit to the loo.