“Prejudice shapes interpretation of the most obvious facts.”
Dear Leader.
Nice to get some rain for the plants last night.
I had planted some lettuce recently, and was placed close to the back door so we can get to it with ease. It has been growing splendidly!
When I went out this morning, however, it was almost completely gone! I was furious.
First, I thought snails had munched it off. Upon close inspection, though, there was no slime-trail to evidence that theory. Plus the seedlings beside it were untouched. Could have been the cat, but unlikely: cats are not known for frequenting salad bars – messing in them, maybe, munching them off, not so much. Might have been the birds, but not probable. There was only one possible culprit left: and I knew only too well who.
It was those stinking squirrels!!!
Those raging vandals will break, destroy or eat just about anything. As if the adults were not bad enough, they had been “busy”: I now faced an additional pair of juveniles to contend with.
Baby squirrels are the worst! They leave the nest as instant teenage-hooligans. Dive-bombing, drop-kicking, base-jumping and tele-porting everywhere, leaving a trail of chaos, clutter and carnage in the wake of their fuzzy-tailed, fur-flung adolescent anarchy!
So I dug up the lettuce, transferred it by pot to the bottom of the garden and re-planted it in a less exposed spot, then put the cloche over it for extra protection. Job done. See you get it now squirrels! After all that effort of experiencing such an extended episode of furry-creature fueled frustration, I sat down with a well-earned coffee, and called Bev to tell of my fury. It was then that I found out that it was she who had cut the leaves off earlier that morning for her packed-lunch… she also made it perfectly clear that, squirrels or no squirrels, she had no intention of walking to the bottom of the garden to harvest it in the future, so I had to dig it back up and return it to where it once was.
Note to Self!
Our prejudices too often shape our interpretation of the most obvious facts. Sometimes we just see what we want to see so as to justify our bias. Then, once our emotions are engaged, it becomes hard to accept the plain logic of a simple, and more rational, solution.
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