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June 23, 2008

After my latest post, I realized there are a lot of ways to prove how strange my household really is.

–A conversation, around 9PM

Me: Remove it yourself.

Bro: I don’t normally touch frogs!

Me: What, you think I do?!

Bro: You have a naked frog swimming in formalin in your room! Don’t tell me you can’t pick one up!

Me: FYI, I gave that frog away. Besides, my frogs were sedated. I don’t necessarily chase them around.

Bro: Whatever, you do it. I’m not touching a frog.

Mom: Anong klase ba naman yang kuya mo?! (What kind of older brother is that?!) 

 

–The Story–

During the recent rains, we discovered a frog living in our front yard. It was average-sized, wasn’t that much of an eyesore and it wasn’t destroying the plants so we didn’t mind.

One night, however, I was washing the dishes in the kitchen when my brother was suddenly yelling for me to come. Startled, I rushed to the living room thinking that something horrible had happened. I had a bunch of theories in my head; that maybe there was something unbelievable on TV, that he broke some stuff, or worse, that it was something electrical. It turned out that the harmless frog had entered the house as my brother came back from his yosi break outside. My brother was screaming and telling me to pick the frog up and throw it back outside ’cause HE DIDN’T WANT TO TOUCH A FROG.

Let me explain this further. My 25-year old older brother is a straight, grown-up, normally adventurous male with long hair up to his shoulders, tan skin, broad shoulders and a stocky built to match… but he didn’t want to pick up a frog.

I told him I was busy washing dishes but he insisted I remove the frog before it goes any deeper under our furniture. I asked him why he can’t just do it himself; and he told me that he doesn’t normally touch frogs. (Like I do?) My mother overheard the argument and was irritated at first, but then started laughing as she took over the dishes I left in the kitchen. Anyway, in fear of the creature possibly having poisonous skin, I got a pair of latex gloves before attmepting the hunt. To my brother’s happiness and amazement, I caught the frog easily in one grasp. He instructed me to throw it out the gate. I might have thrown it a little too far as I saw it fly towards the other side of our street. It was a just a few inches from my neighbor’s property, who almost woke up to find a smashed amphibian at their gate.

I really didn’t mind having to get rid of that frog, except that some kind of sticky, icky, yucky mucus got stuck in my gloves and my brother didn’t want to clean it either.

Oh well, LIFE IS ODD. Nowadays, baby sisters get to save their brothers from little harmless amphibians.

Posted by alia at 11:55 am | permalink

Previous Comments

Haha. Nice one. The last sentence made me laugh. And I thought I was the only one who thinks my family is crazy. :p

Posted by Kimmy at June 23, 2008, 6:03 pm

guys aren’t normally squeamish about touching frogs — or maybe your brother is just way too fastidious heheheh (don’t tell him i said that — or he might want to beat me up).

umm… ever thought of chasing it out with a broom or a stick? just asking :D

Posted by nosy onyxx at June 25, 2008, 1:34 am

@kimmy: I think each family is strange in its own way.

@onyxx: I’m still wondering as to why he was that squeamish. And, as I’ve learned from experience, chasing it out with a stick poses risks of it leaping towards a corner that we can’t possibly get it out of.

Posted by alia at June 25, 2008, 11:16 am

It’s very funny, alia :D ..

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