Absolutely gross...

[Weedmage Princess]

Okay...I was pretty hungry...so I went over to Wendy's....I pull into the parking lot...and there's this guy walking around with a pet OPOSSUM on his shoulder...no mistake about it...big and fat, long, hairless shoulder...long snout *shudder* ...I was starving..but I saw that...did a quadruple take (wanted to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me...) then hanging back to avoid the almost 3 car accident in the parking lot (cause a couple of other people were staring at this guy in disbelief and didnt bother to step on their brakes) and just left.

Am I the only one who thinks...bringing a pet like that to a fast food parking lot is kind of..uhm...tasteless? I mean..I'm not knocking people taking their pets out...but...to walk around with something that's most associated with road kill on your shoulder while people are trying to get their lunch...isn't that just...bad taste?

[Edited on 9-20-2003 by Weedmage Princess]

[Solkern]

Your kinda making me hungry now...Possum..ummmhmmmm

[theotherjohn]

its not as gross as people smoking near the entrance.

[Camri]

I live near the Missouri border. I can go 50 miles south, and see weird shit like that all the time.

[Solkern]

I live in Colorado, few months ago, I was walking down pearl street, and i saw a cat walking around with a dog sitting on its back. I was like whoa

[Edited on 9-20-2003 by Solkern]

[DCSL]

I think you're overly sensitive. He was just in the parking lot. But then again, nothing has ever made me lose my appetite, not even sitting in on an autopsy. I'm probably the weird one here. ;)

[CrystalTears]

If he was IN the restaurant, that would have bothered me a little (just a little) but I wouldn't have lost my appetite over it. I'm like Dex, I don't lose my appetite over much except someone ralphing. But seeing disections and autopsies are very intriguing to me. I used to watch those shows with a plate of food in my hand. :D

[Bestatte]

Possums are icky. If it was -in- the restaurant, I'd tell the manager to kick the guy out or I'll call the health department and have them shut down.

In the parking lot though, eh. No biggie, I might even be curious enough to approach and check it out for myself.

Animals are awesome. Even the icky ones.
Now, if he had a pet cockroach, I'd run it over with my truck and skeeve out for the next week, hoping its guts just magically disappear from my tires.

But that's cockroaches. Possums are just icky in general, but they're still animals and not cockroaches, so they get forgiven for existing.

[Weedmage Princess]

I'm sure I'm very sensitive about that... I have a severe phobia of rodents, so I'm not surprised I was put off immediately. I wouldn't call it "over" sensitive, but sensitive.

But--not counting that, just overall....I was thinking in general seeing "that" particular type of animal in a fast food restaurant parking lot would put people off. Same thing if it were a skunk or something. It's just not something you'd want in front of a burger joint where people gotta eat. And besides..what type of pet is an opposum anyway? I could be wrong since I know very little about them as pets, but....what if it got loose or something? I've always heard they are vicious.

[Edited on 9-20-2003 by Weedmage Princess]

[peam]

An opossum is a marsupial.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Originally posted by theotherjohn
its not as gross as people smoking near the entrance.

What's worse is when I go outside and some inconsiderate fuck is all NOT smoking in my airspace, polluting it with nasty clean air. Dirtbags.

PS - I'm a former smoker, I anti-smoke advocates have gone overboard.

[Weedmage Princess]

Okay then...rodent-like things...???

[Kurili]

An oppossum is like an armadillo who left his armor in his locker.

And no, I cant see where it'd be a good pet, but to each his own.

I DO have some good recipes for possum, but since my taste seemed questioned in another thread, I suppose you dont want the recipes?

Acolyte Kurili

[Snapp]

A pet possum?? Where the heck do you live?

[Weedmage Princess]

No thank you, and I live in Eastern Massachusetts, south of Boston.

[Ilvane]

Weedy, did we discuss where you live yet? I'm in eastern mass, south of Boston too..:)

-A

[Weedmage Princess]

Kinda Ilvane, but not really! I'm down 24...you were telling me you're in between 3 and 24.

[Ilvane]

okay..:)

We're having a gather at King Richards Faire tomorrow, ya know?

-A

[Weedmage Princess]

Oh, I didn't know that!

[Faellyn]

No I don't think the parking lot is inappropriate, but if it were inside then I would ask management to make it leave. Mass is where I'm from most recently before Minnesota. More west though...

[CrystalTears]

If Weedmage goes and starts the celebrity and/or music tag, I'm kicking her. :P

[GS4Gurl]

If he took the opossum into the kitchen while holding a big knife, then I would worry.

heehee

[Betheny]

I don't think it's that gross, but I'd be a little disconcerted, I think.

[Weedmage Princess]

Yeah okay so I'm the stuck up bitch here...fine!

<grumbles, puts a pillow on her butt, and wanders to the music and celebrity threads> :P

[Savanae]

When I was about 16 my sister and myself found an opossum that had been hit by a car. It was dead but we noticed something moving. She had two kits that we brought home and bottle-fed. They were very sweet and calm animals. We didn’t cage them we just laid a branch over a bucket and they hung there by their tails all quiet until evening when we would take shifts caring for them.

My father taught all of us how to care for wild animals if we found them hurt. He would bring all sorts home anything from owls to skunks and teach us how to handle them and get them to the right people to be rehabilitated.

Opossums aren't vicious they're wild. If they’re scared they will bite and claw to get away. It's not like they hunt you down and just go berserk, unless they’re sick at least. My theory is their living beings, if their hurt and I can help them in any way consider it done.

Suzanne

[Kurili]

Think he wants my recipes?


Acolyte Kurili, trying to be helpful

[smarty pants]

Originally posted by Weedmage Princess
Okay...I was pretty hungry...so I went over to Wendy's....I pull into the parking lot...and there's this guy walking around with a pet OPOSSUM on his shoulder...no mistake about it...big and fat, long, hairless shoulder...long snout *shudder* ...I was starving..but I saw that...did a quadruple take (wanted to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me...) then hanging back to avoid the almost 3 car accident in the parking lot (cause a couple of other people were staring at this guy in disbelief and didnt bother to step on their brakes) and just left.

Am I the only one who thinks...bringing a pet like that to a fast food parking lot is kind of..uhm...tasteless? I mean..I'm not knocking people taking their pets out...but...to walk around with something that's most associated with road kill on your shoulder while people are trying to get their lunch...isn't that just...bad taste?

[Edited on 9-20-2003 by Weedmage Princess]
how can you go eat at WENDY'S and then think a oppossum on someones shoulder is gross? you obviously haven't taken a good look at the food.