Comments on: Pet Toads

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:37:27 +0000

I guess if you can call a wet sprocket “Toad” (Toad the wet sprocket) then you could call a toad “Wet Sprocket”. However, if you are going to call a cat Bird then maybe the toad should be named “Fly” or “Cricket”. Regardless, I too will refrain from bringing Ft. Stewart nicknames into the mix. (Memories are flying in my head and making me laugh out loud).

By: jenn

jenn — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:31:50 +0000

Ah…reading this totally choked me up. But I’m glad too.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:22:16 +0000

VC — thanks for the praise! Yeah, my brother and I used to love to go down to the creek and catch crayfish together, too.

Rob, I fixed the double post thing. And yeah, I remember the way both of us (and everybody else, too) would fix up our barracks rooms. Were you still in when Fritsch build that thing out of 2 x 4s that had a desk/mini-fridge study area under his bunk, which was sort of up on stilts almost to the ceiling?

Dave didn’t tell me about any names for the toads, but I like the “name the toad” thread idea. My first proposal: well, my attorney has a cat named Bird, so why not a toad named Crow, in honor of Ted? After all, it’d be a lot better than the nicknames you and I had at Fort Stewart. (Don’t even start, now: you know you don’t want to go there .)

By: verbal chameleon

verbal chameleon — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:34:05 +0000

Hi! Came here for the first time for the Dissertation Flail (via InsideHigherEd) and stayed.

This is good. I have read a lot about prisons where the inmates train service dogs. I think pets do bring back some of the humanity in that inhuman space.

The story also brought me back to when I was a kid, and my brother and I used to catch toads, crayfish, etc.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:41:38 +0000

Anything that returns even just a little bit of normalcy to one’s life is priceless in a situation like that. Think about all of the “little things” that made us happy in the military. I would hang on to even the smallest memento if it made “the ghetto” (700 block) feel a bit more like home. I’m glad to hear that your brother found that toad. Any names provided for said toad? Maybe we could start a “name that toad” thread. HA!