The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

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That Is a funny Story!

 

[Wisher1000]

What were the green things?

 

[KnobbyOaks]

I want to see this rock.
I like to, also. One more thing many of us have in common.
I don't know if I have a happy post... but I'll try.

I loved to collect rocks when I was younger, too. I would bring them inside and put them on my dresser, or on a table, or leave them somewhere because I was a slobby kid.
I brought other rock-like things in sometimes, too.
One day I found these awesome round green things on the ground, brought them in, and put them on my dresser, and then forgot about them.
Until they hatched.
Some fly had laid a billion eggs on these things, or in them, or something.
And my mom is NOT a nice person, and was less of a nice person when I was a kid. I was terrified of this woman. Still am.
Anyway, there were about 3 million flies in my bedroom and I knew my mom was going to freak out. And I was going to be in trouble. So I hid the green things in a dresser drawer.
They continued to hatch.
I closed my bedroom door. Because as a kid, that was a totally logical way of making the flies disappear.
Some would escape when I would go in and out of my bedroom, and they'd escape through the door cracks, too.
My mom couldn't figure out where the heck all the flies in the house were coming from.
Then one day she opened my bedroom door. And was horrified at the fly situation.
Then she heard the buzzing in my dresser. Opened up the drawer and was mauled by flies.
I was not allowed to collect rocks after that.

I don't know if that was a happy story but it durn sure was a funny one. Kids are great!

 

[Cynthia12]

SCG!

That was great. Wish I could have been one of those flys on a wall to see your moms face when she opened the drawer.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

What were the green things?

'Twas somethin' that looked like this:
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=23212


Obviously, something that one should save. I would still bring something like that in the house if I found it today.

There was all kinds of weird trees down there that we don't have up here. I remember these insane green pollen ball things that looked like grape bunches, and I used to play with them, too.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And, you know, now that I'm actually thinking about my story, and realizing I've had biology... I would have to admit that there were more than likely not maggots all over my bedroom. I don't recall those, just the flies. But they had to have been there.

I'd ask my mom but I think she's still mad about it.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

'Twas somethin' that looked like this:
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=23212


Obviously, something that one should save. I would still bring something like that in the house if I found it today.

There was all kinds of weird trees down there that we don't have up here. I remember these insane green pollen ball things that looked like grape bunches, and I used to play with them, too.

That is fruit from a bois d'arc tree. Commonly called a horse apple.

 

[ronott1]

And, you know, now that I'm actually thinking about my story, and realizing I've had biology... I would have to admit that there were more than likely not maggots all over my bedroom. I don't recall those, just the flies. But they had to have been there.

I'd ask my mom but I think she's still mad about it.

Maggots in the closet!

Hopefully the stayed inside the fruit....

 

[KnobbyOaks]

I had always heard that if you put a horse apple under your kitchen sink cabinet that you wouldn't have any roaches. I did that and forgot about it. 20 years later when I packed up to move, there, under the sink was this dried up, black round ball. Didn't have any roaches either but don't know who to give the credit to. I never called an exterminator either.

 

[Stumpy]

Knobbyoaks, I'd always heard they repelled spiders. The wood from those trees is some of the hardest around and many a fencepost was made from them in early settling of the country, I understand. Horse apples are extremely dense, hard and heavy. We had one in the yard where I grew up.