I know. I know! I don’t write in here nearly as often as I should. And every day I tell myself I’m going write something but I never end up writing a damn thing. Just pissed at myself that I should have written something. Maybe this post will shut the voices up for a little bit.
Over the weekend I went to the San Diego Zoo. This zoo is a very popular zoo nationwide, if not internationally, and it’s a place I plan on going to more often. The adventure around the zoo is a major cardio workout but it’s so worth it. Just plan to spend the whole day there, if not two whole days.
I’m not really writing this to explain my trip to the zoo. However, there was one thing I’ve been thinking about that has been stuck with me ever since: what goes through these animals’ minds when all these foreign creatures to them are staring at them and flashing lights in their eyes? Some of them look completely freaked out but a lot of them actually looked content. Here, take this polar bear for example:
What about this face says, “Life sucks”? That’s right, nothing. Nothing about this face wishes it were elsewhere. In fact, it’s the same face I have had since I moved to San Diego. I know it well. It screams, “Now this I could get used to.”
However, it’s not this face that was the clincher. And I say that as a foreshadowed pun because as soon as the polar bear consumed the ten carrots it was given, it stood up, turned its back to all the onlookers ranging in age from two to ninety-two and took a giant polar bear sized shit, then walked away to play with a blue bucket.
You, my furry sir, are my hero.
So back to the question of what goes through the animals’ heads at the zoo. If I’m that polar bear in the picture, this is all I can think of once he finished those carrots:
“Here, lemme show you what $40 bucks at the gate buys you…. There. Nature. You happy?”
