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El Guapo
Original Poster
1,708 posts
59 months
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What mundane things have you seen or done that, even many years later, you cannot get out of your mind?
More than 20 years ago I was seeding a new lawn in my dad's garden. I had done a proper job of preparation and had finished the task. Standing in the kitchen with a well-earned cuppa I glanced out of the window at my handiwork and spotted 3 or 4 birds snacking away on the freshly-sown grass seed. To scare them off I went out and lobbed a small stone in their general direction, by pure chance scoring a direct hit on one of them. It flailed around for a moment then lay still. I picked it up and it looked at me and opened its beak a couple of times as it breathed its last.
I remember the nausea and numbness that I felt at that moment and how I went into the house and cried like a baby, but I will take to my grave the image of that bird looking straight at me as if to say "Why?"
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perdu
3,255 posts
68 months
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self defence
just don't do it again
one is an accident
two is murder
gardening - please be careful out there
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GTIR
19,078 posts
135 months
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VinceFox
14,220 posts
41 months
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Wacky Racer
20,281 posts
116 months
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You should have done bird for that.
Still, it's in the past so don't get in a flap about it.
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Tiger Tim
1,355 posts
91 months
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Slow worm.. wriggling around doing it's thing. Me, playing with a flat blade screwdriver pretending it was a knife and that I was a ninja. Threw knife/screwdriver in the air, didn't go for the catch and it split the slow worm sort of length ways and the knife/screwdriver stuck in the floor. Felt like a ninja while my mate was there. Felt like a stone cold killer at home. As a ninja is a stone cold killer they cancelled each other out. I'm fine now. You should be too OP. Come up with a poor justification like I just did and move on. 
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BlackVanDyke
8,039 posts
80 months
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Tried to help a very young pheasant chick (max 3 days old) that had lost its mum/siblings. What I know now is that the second I touched it I basically guaranteed its death (titchy wild birds are bad at stress), whereas if I'd left it, it might just possibly have found its mum and been OK. It didn't die a nice death either, a terrified 40mins in a sawdust-lined box then euthanased by wildlife vet - it was obviously well on its way out by the time I got it to them. Tried for a bit to persuade myself that it being pecked to bits by crows would have been worse but actually I'm still not sure that it would. Just couldn't persuade myself to leave it, peeping for its mum who was nowhere to be seen, with crows lining up on the fence waiting for me to get out the way... 
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Ikemi
6,036 posts
74 months
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BlackVanDyke said: Tried for a bit to persuade myself that it being pecked to bits by crows would have been worse but actually I'm still not sure that it would. When I put a pigeon out of it's misery with a spade, I justified it in the same way. It was in obvious pain; It had it been hit my a car, had it's wing broken, and was stuck in the side of the road in a puddle of water. If I had left it, it would either die through cold, or be ripped to shreds by a cat or a fox. The girlfriend wanted to bring it home and attend to it, but it's not as if we could fix it's wing! It was pretty late in the evening too, as we were driving home from a friend's house. As the pigeon was just 100m down the road, I grabbed a spade from the shed ... It took me a few minutes to do the deed. A pretty difficult thing to do. It was for the best though and prevented any further suffering.
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Rick101
730 posts
19 months
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Ordered a Med pizza as (I'd already had my scran) at work one night.
They sent a 15" extra large by mistake.
Couldn't manage it and had to leave 3 slices untouched.
Every time I think of that wasted feast I cry a little bit inside.
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El Guapo
Original Poster
1,708 posts
59 months
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Rick101 said: They sent a 15" extra large by mistake.
Couldn't manage it and had to leave 3 slices untouched. How can you live with yourself?
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Ikemi
6,036 posts
74 months
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El Guapo said: Rick101 said: They sent a 15" extra large by mistake.
Couldn't manage it and had to leave 3 slices untouched. How can you live with yourself? It certainly puts my pigeon bashing into perspective.
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Chunkychucky
3,928 posts
38 months
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A hill near my house, every time I drive down it I remember being a passenger at 8 years old in my mum's old Merc: raining, coming around the corner to discover a stationary traffic jam, swerving to the otherside of the road, then skidding down the otherside of the road with the wheels locked up, and seeing a bus coming the other way..
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SpeedEight
850 posts
144 months
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Ikemi said: It certainly puts my pigeon bashing into perspective. 
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TwigtheWonderkid
6,052 posts
19 months
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Cycling along the canal toepath. There's a hospital close by that treats psyciatric problems, including eating disorders.
Up ahead on the path there's 2 women walking arm in arm, looked from behind like mother and daughter. The daughter was painfully thin, legs like pipe cleaners. Mum has obviously come to visit her and they were having a gentle stroll along the canal.
As I got close, they were blocking the way, so I rang my bell and called out very politely "excuse me ladies."
The mum turned and smiled and moved to one side, but the daughter was obviously no having a good day. She turned and barked at me "you bloody cyclists think you own the footpath." I was very angry at her response. Given that annorexics think they are fat, as I went past her I shouted at her "you should take up cycling yourself, fatarse!"
Was about 20 yrs ago. Who knows how many months it set her back. Might even have indirectly finished her off. Stupid really. I wouldn't get involved now, I'd just ignore it and cycle on.
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Hugo a Gogo
15,150 posts
102 months
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Wacky Racer said: You should have done bird for that.
Still, it's in the past so don't get in a flap about it. let's not have any more cheep comments like this
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Jasandjules
45,408 posts
98 months
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Saw a magpie eating a live hoglet in our garden, ran out to see half the hoglet's head eaten, eye missing and side open, there was no way it was going to survive so I went and got a spade and took it's head off. Was not happy but did find two other hoglets in the garden who were taken to our local animal rescue center.
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Adenauer
8,915 posts
105 months
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What's a hoglet? 
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croyde
8,747 posts
99 months
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What on earth is a hoglet? Is it a small pig with tusks?
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Use Psychology
9,797 posts
61 months
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was in my lab heating up some glassware under vacuum with a small blowtorch (the kind you use to make creme brulee) - we heat it to dry it out before we put our chemicals in it. anyway, a wasp landed on my bench and i wanted to scare it away, so i sort of pointed the torch in it's general direction... thinking it would get hot and fly away. the flame was nowhere near the wasp. unfortunately its wings caught fire and just sort of turned into a puff of smoke. I stopped pointing the blowtorch at it and this wasp was left to walk around with no wings. poor wasp
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doogz
18,686 posts
56 months
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TwigtheWonderkid said: Cycling along the canal toepath. There's a hospital close by that treats psyciatric problems, including eating disorders.
Up ahead on the path there's 2 women walking arm in arm, looked from behind like mother and daughter. The daughter was painfully thin, legs like pipe cleaners. Mum has obviously come to visit her and they were having a gentle stroll along the canal.
As I got close, they were blocking the way, so I rang my bell and called out very politely "excuse me ladies."
The mum turned and smiled and moved to one side, but the daughter was obviously no having a good day. She turned and barked at me "you bloody cyclists think you own the footpath." I was very angry at her response. Given that annorexics think they are fat, as I went past her I shouted at her "you should take up cycling yourself, fatarse!"
Was about 20 yrs ago. Who knows how many months it set her back. Might even have indirectly finished her off. Stupid really. I wouldn't get involved now, I'd just ignore it and cycle on. Ooft, I think you've taken the lead for now, anyway. That was pretty nasty! 
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