This is Lizzie's suggestion. Because she went into a brother's room yesterday and found a dead fish decomposing in its fish bowl. I guess the boys were waiting for a chance to hold a funeral?
I'm writing because you said I'm not allowed to talk to you about it anymore. Fine! I won't talk. And I won't even mention the magnificent creature the Braxtons are selling for 1/3 of what you would pay anywhere else. No exaggeration. I checked on the internet. But I'm not even going to mention that.
What I am going to mention is what you wouldn't let me say last night when you turned off my light and closed my door in the middle of my sentence.
I don't want a fish! I don't want an aquarium full of fish. I don't care if aquariums are good feng shui. I want a pet, Dad. Not a centerpiece.
Fish aren't pets. You can't talk to them about your problems. Well, I guess you can, but they can't hear you. They just swim around stupid. If they look at you, they stare with those unlinking goggly eyes and then you feel either stupid or freakish.
Oh, and you have to take them out of the bowl every week and clean it. So you have to catch them with the fish net and the second you pull them out of the water, they start thrashing around like they're dying. And they might be -- if they thrash enough they'll throw themselves out of the net and land on the floor before you can get them safely into the glass of water you have sitting there. And then you have to chase them all over the floor with the fish net and they get covered in fuzz and hair. And finally, you figure out that you have to pick them up with your hands. So if you're lucky and you didn't accidentally step on them and they're still alive, you scoop them up with both hands, (one hand doesn't work cause they're slimy and wriggling) and if you get them safely into the glass, then you can go throw up. That's emotionally scarring, Dad. Not what I want in a pet.
No, fish were never meant to be pets. They're meant to swim free. Who knows how much it hurts them to be pulled out of the water. They sure look like it hurts.
Okay, so maybe you can get a whole aquarium with a filter and you don't have to clean it. But they're still not pets. They're still clued out and stupid.
I want a pet I can touch (without throwing up). Don't you remember what those studies said?
I don't want fish.
Jana
