Just Outta Place
I Want To Keep It, But Knew I Couldn’t
I knew from the get-go I could keep the turtle eventhough as a kid I’ve always wanted a pet turtle. But the tutle didn’t belong in a cage. In the few hours it spent crawling around my kitchen sink I wonder where he came from. I’m not that close to the lake for a turtle to crawl and it wasn’t a land turtle. Crawling into traffic, the turtle was just out of place.
On the sun had set and the air was cooler, I took the turtle in a old show box to this park in downtown Hammond. It was a nice size man-made pond/lake with fish so it habitable. I place him down in the grass and he scurried off into the water. I watched him get accustomed to his new home before he dove off into the murkiness. I knew I couldn’t have kept him, just like me he would have been out of place.
3 Comments
Norris
June 27th, 2005
at 11:21pm
That was so nice of you. I would have been driving to fast to have seen the animal.
graeeye
June 28th, 2005
at 6:50am
Some chick on the news was looking for that turtle….it wandered out of her backyard.
There’s a $250 reward for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SinRo
June 28th, 2005
at 4:14pm
He probably belonged to someone. Neva heard of a stray tutrle before.