Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 2003/04

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <patricia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] floor hamsters-was Oops!!
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:37:14 -0400

Rebecca Brennan wrote:
> Yes! Just the other day I was the last to be picked up from band
> practice and my band director left me alone in the band room and out
> came the floor hamsters! It was so scary. I had to climb on top of the
> stool on the podium but they can do summersaults! I'm hoping my new band
> room will not have scary flying hamsters. Once I saw the queen hamster
> and she had antennas sticking out of her head and she had big, black
> wings. She chased me around the band room for about 20 minutes. That was
> just long enough to make me loose enough weight so I could fit in my
> band uniform for the competition the next day. All of the chairs were
> put in the closet because it was a weekend so I couldn't climb on top of
> them.
>
> When I was a sophomore I caught a floor hamster in a box and I took it
> outside and set it free. It took me about an hour, but I stayed after
> school and the band director left to go home before the ball game and he
> let me watch the band room and I got tired of running from them.
>
> -Rebecca, bringing back painful memories of hamsters

I take it "floor hamsters" are NOT rodents? Or are they wild meeces?

Patricia Smith, who missed all the talk of "floor hamsters" and keeps
pet meeces and gerbils and is a slave to a house rabbit as well.

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