The Lobster Escaped! TRUE STORY!!!

[titianmac]

Picture the scene if you will

Its about 5:50am on Saturday morning. Andrew has just left home to go to work as hes on overtime and im sat in the dinning room looking a little worse for wear. Not because Ive been out drinking, nor cos its early- allow me to turn back the clock about half hour



Ive just realized that despite not hearing the alarm clock myself, Andrew is up and about and heading out to work. I know this as I can hear him walking down stairs and the lights are being turned off.

Being the nice girl and loving fiance that I am I spring after him to bid him farewell before returning to the warmth and comfort of my snuggly duvet for many hour yet to come



Andrew: Sssshhhh- I could hear dripping

(Checking taps and now looking at fish tank no 1. Nothing.)



Andrew: Nope.. (now heading into the dinning room to check tank 2)



Halfway into the dinning room with only the light from the hallway glowing softly

Andrew: aarghh!



Me: Is it wet?! (thinking that his socks are soggy but puzzled I cant see a half empty tank)



Andrew: No you idiot look!

(dining room light turned on (its half way into the room if you were wondering))



Me: (wait about 5 seconds while I catch up)
".. . . . ..... aaaarrrgggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!



The drama you see is all revolving around what lives in tank 2. The answer being our pet lobster.

Actually- if you want to be smart its a crayfish because it lives in freshwater not salt but hey-a lobster is a lobster and you dont mess with a lobster!

This is the lobster who started life small. Then in about 3 months has grown to about the length of my hand. This is the lobster who ate 24 of our 25 shiney little pretty and apparently yummy tetras. This is the lobster who ate one of our angel fish. This is the lobster who ate half of our catfish. This is the lobster who soon found himself in his own tank..

This is the lobster who today went for a stroll across the dining room!



So you see infact the dripping that Andrew heard was infact more of a plodding or tapping if you will as the lobster ventured onwards.
How long hed been there is anyones guess- weve been in bed since about 11 last night.
Neither the floor or lobster are wet. (its easy to assess as its laminate not carpet.) It seems he must have escaped in a similar fashion to when the eel did a runner a few months back ( ! ) via a tiny air hole at the top of the tank where the cables live.



Hes now back in his tank which Andrew has taped up nicely but do I feel better? No.

I did- until Andrews parting words were:



of course-parcel tapes not gonna do much is it, hes armed with 2 pairs of his own lethal scissors!



A valid point well put! EEEKKKK!!!!!!

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[planetanna]

so, is he still in his tank then? or has he graduated to a large pot of boiling water in the kitchen?

[titianmac]

He's back in the tank for now....
We figured we could fatten him up and then auction him for christmas on ebay!
.... That or we could have lobster as the wedding breakfast!
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[planetanna]

ha- - he would need to be one LARGE lobster to be served at you wedding breakfast!!! or - maybe you could breed him!!! (how do you get baby lobsters anyway?)

give him a little tux - he would walk you down the isle!!!



A
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[Louise]

This all smells a bit fishy to me (sorry couldn't resist)

I think this is the voice of fate telling you to throw the sealife back in the pond and get a hamster or something with fluff rather than arms that double up as weapons

I recommend maximum security for the escapee

[titianmac]

funny enough my ex had a fluffy pet- she was called daisy sue and was a mexican chilli rose trantula!
At least the morning we found her in the kitchen we were vaguely prepared as she'd escaped several weeks before!!!
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[chris]

Sorry this is a late reply to the post...very late...but I hope tha lobster is still OK?

Our greatest escape in our house was my son David's 2ft long Albina King snake "Crusher", who escaped through a tiny crack in the sliding doors of his vivarium...I saw the carck but did'nt say anything till it was to late, he'd ben missing for 3 days, we think he disappeared down a hole in the skirting boards upstairs never to be seen again. He obviously had died, it would have been to cold for him & there was no food either...poor little thing, David did miss him.

We spent ages worried that he'd surface in one of our neighbours houses forunatly he did'nt.

chris xx
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[titianmac]

We were due to move house about 3 weeks after the spider escaped and that place was rented... hadnt actually mentioned Daisy sue to the landlords. We didnt know what to do but almost hope she too had passed away with cold and hunger. Turns out she reappeared in the kitchen looking tatty and thin with about 2 days to go... What an adventure she must of had, we figure she took a shortcut down the pipes from the airing cupboard as all the holes were square cut in that house! She picked up fine and lived on for ages

.... The lobster is fine by the way thanks for asking Chris, sulking and lonely but fine
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