one kids trash is a bigger kids tirade

so i'm never sure what direction this blog is gonna go but

as a good friend pointed out i do need to keep my audience entertained

today on my drive to work i was tossing around ideas in my head 

and of course thats always a slippery slope that generally leads everywhere

and ultimately nowhere

such was the case upon my arrival at work

but as i was packing up to head to my next location for the day

a tiny scrap of paper caught my eye

just a little square folded in fours

one side was lined and the top said:

"write a story about someone who takes care of the enviroment."

i turned it over at the opposite side, in pink child-like handwriting read:

"porkypine or a snake"

it made me chuckle

i picked it up and put it in my pocket and promptly forgot it

until i emptied my pockets for the day

and obviously i pick the "porkypine" because snakes are just douches

though i must admit that i had to do a little research  

to find out what sort of contributions they've made to the enviroment

the snake, it pains me deeply to admit, is actually very essential to the enviroment

and maintaining the balance of the ecosystems and what not....

the old "porkypine" 

(how apt the child spelled it this way

as the word porcupine actually comes from

the middle french word porc espin or spined pig)

well they havent exactly been the best caretakers of the environment

turns out they've actually been detrimental to the southeast asian populations

when used as a primary food source that is..

until recently their primary contributions have been as arts and crafts suppliers

their quills being used in headdresses and other decorative accessories

but i suppose in a family of artists when a kiddo wants to rebellious 

they go out and join the medical field

and thats sort of what these guys have done

in recent years their quills have inspired

a new type of hypodermic needle

specifically the backward-facing barbs on the quills

when used as needles they do two things

penetrate the skin and stay in place

which of course is  quite useful for doing important things like 

drawing blood

and thus creating synthetic vampires

without all the melodramatic im-afraid-of-garlic-heil-transylvania stuff

sorry guys guess you're gonna be in the unemployment line...

wait a minute! 

did porcupines just make vampires defunct??? 

sam and dean couldnt even do that...

hi-five "porkypines"!!

er...well maybe just an air high-five...

alright so this has ended up as more of a rant

and less of a story...

maybe i'll fold the slip back up and put it in my wallet

and revisit it later

or maybe i'll leave it somewhere

for some other like minded scribbler to find

maybe i should take it back 

poor kid probably got in trouble for not doing their homework...

dear kid who writes in pink ink,

sorry you lost your homework and i kept it.

stay away from drugs and stuff

-rah

p.s. your teacher probably hates it when you write in pink

stick to basic black, its classy