Friday, May 28, 2010

Dont' Kill My Worms

Craig's List had an add for two eighteen gallon totes full of red wiggler worms for only $15.00 a piece. I contacted the lady right away and told her I would buy both of the totes as soon as I get off work. When I arrived at her huge city house later that day, I was meat with a screening process to be judged worthy to buy these worms from her. I should have walked away right then.
She asked me if I knew how to care for them and wanted me to tell her how I do it. Then she went to great lengths to tell me what she feeds them and how often. Then she asked me what I had planned for her worms. I told her they would be used for composting, fishing and a source of protein for the chickens.
What happened next was a classic screen shot straight out of The Exorcist with the head spinning around and the demon voice. I do not know if you have ever made a Pakistani woman mad or not, but this lady went completely ballistic on me and I really did not understand a thing she was saying. I just know she was mad due to the twenty years of experience I have making the wife mad. I came to realize, the facial expressions and tone of voice are all the same no matter where you were born .
What I got out of it was, if I thought for one second about using her worms as feed then she would not sell them to me. Then I think I heard her say something about "Worm Murder" and I know I heard "Redneck" somewhere in there. She then went on to say she has been raising those same worms for over three years and they are her babies and need a good home to go to and not some butcher farm.
This made the second time I should have walked away from this nut case but I really wanted those worms. So I assured her as soon as I got them home, I would set her worms free to roam the farm and be happy until their last days without a care in the world.
Just as fast as she was demon possessed, she settle down and then happily handed them over.
I walked away shaking my head and mumbling, "Foreign City folks"

8 comments:

  1. Just when you think you have heard it all and seen it all, you run a cross a worm hugger!! I bet that did blow your mind.

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  2. And on another note, your cloths sure smelled good when you got them off the line too, didn't they. We don't even own a dryer. I might duck under my blue jeans as I walk through the door on a rainy day. They still smell good when the Missis gets through ironing them. Have a great weekend.

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  3. Iron them? What is that. My jeans are so stiff they stand up on there own. And the towels, wow! it's like drying off with a Brillo pad.
    I love it and would not have it any other way. Thanks Tigger for the comments.

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  4. There are way too many crazy people allowed to walk our streets... worms as babies? That lady needs to be locked up, protect her from herself at least.

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  5. You should have seen it first hand. Thanks for the comment KingAzJay.

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  6. I am laughing so hard.
    That was hilarious. I have been known to be really protective of my worms, but oh my.
    Liz
    BigTex Worms

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  7. I can understand protective but this was a little, no a lot overboard. Thanks for the comment Liz.

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  8. Dang, I wish you'd gotten that on video.
    I can see it now, it would go "viral" on youtube and she'd be known as the "crazy worm lady".

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