Wind in the Willow

Interesting story. (At least I was amused when I told it to myself...)

Kristin and I were just getting down to bed a couple nights ago, all the teeth were brushed, faces both washed, you know the drill. So we were just picking up where we left off in our respective books when we heard some scratching at the back sliding door in our room. Recently Kristin has taken to feeding some of the stray cats around our condo (which I think is a noble ambition, but I don't plan on adopting every one of them!) so I was completely sure we had a little cat scratching on the glass, waiting for some tuna or something.

Up jumped the wife, always excited to greet her new pets (kinda ironicly since she's pretty alergic to cats...) and so she crouches down as she pulls back the curtain......only to find a gigantic TOAD hopping into our glass door! I guess it was like a bug, trying to get into the warm room. (Again, ironic, we live in HAWAII!) I watch Discovery channel and so I am familiar with toads and other amphibians, but I rarely see in real life a toad the size of both my fists.

So the very next night we have just gone through the same routine to get to sleep and we hear the same sound...of course we're wise to the Mr. Toad now, so we both get up to see our new friend. When we opened the shades there's no Mr. Toad on the door mat like last night. Mr. Toad has somehow crawled in between the screen and the glass of the door, effectively trapping himself! He could still go up and down, making the scraping noises, but he can't go out. Crazy! I went outside and literally had to take the screen off the tracks, careful not to squish our friend, and alow him to flop out and hop rapidly into the garden.

Sidenote: One of my pet peeves is the misuse of the word "literal." It always ticks me off when I hear someone talking about the weather saying, "It's literally like the surface of the sun!" Or else when they're hungry saying, "Man, I could literally eat a house right now!" What, is it millions of degrees outside? You are telling me that right now you could demolish a residential, start with the roof shingles, down to the carpets and tiles, and eat a house?! Literally, wise up. Maybe I'm not literally this agressive....