That was...interesting.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Some of the details are escaping me, as is typical of just waking up, but for some reason I had a dream last night where my home had become a bit of a real-life Torimi Cafe.

I'd apparently found a number of stray, abandoned, or orphaned animals all over town, and elected to give them all a place to live. In the course of events, I'd brought in:

-2 baby miniature chukar partridges (Preemptive "shut up" here. When you factor out the Shuu mentality they're actually kinda cute.)
-4 baby budgies of various colors
-A raven
-Some number of baby rock doves
-A rat terrier/poodle mix (Phoebe, a dog I had back in high school)
-A moat's worth of fish living in an aquarium built into the walls that went all around the place(...yeah, this one's kinda lost on me)

And, with them as my permanent house guests, I'd turned my place into a little side-of-the-road cafe, serving up iced tea, grilled cheese sandwiches, and everything breakfast for folks. Couldn't seat more than 5 or 6 people at a time, but it kept the atmosphere rather relaxed.

It was actually kinda nice.

Comments

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

This sounds exactly like something I would do. :D

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Something else I remember about it: there was some girl in it who kept texting me, complaining about all kinds of crap about me (think "stereotypical ex-gf" )...so one day she comes by the cafe to gripe at me in person, slaps me, and storms off. In the process, however, she forgot her phone. So I decided to get some payback.

Said payback involved taking her phone apart, putting each piece into a small packaging envelope, putting her address on it, putting a randomly-selected household somewhere in the US as the return address, getting the proper postage on it...then taking each of those, and putting it and a letter explaining what I was doing into a larger packaging envelope mailed to the place on the return address of the first package.

Basically, it'd all get back to her...eventually...assuming everyone who got one of the packages was nice enough to drop them off in the mail.

Just to solidify the revenge, I held onto the battery myself.

[davidn]

That sounds absolutely lovely :) Of course, accommodation of orphaned fish is a large problem in many Northern towns!