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My First Babies | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Livebearers and Parental Credit (none / 0) (#3)
by unclescott on Fri Oct 17, 2003 at 01:28:54 AM PST

That "Congratulations Dad" caught my lady's eye as she ambled by. We looked at each other and both chuckled.

Back when we were dating, I dropped by her house one afternoon. Her Mom (who wasn't too sure about this guy anyway) asked, "What's new?"

"Oh, I'm a father!"

The shocked look on her face suggested that she was seriously considering where to quickly find a shotgun or maybe a howitzer.

The tension cleared quite a bit when I added,

"Yeah, there were over a dozen baby black mollies!"

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Reminds me of when I was a teen.... (none / 0) (#5)
by guppygirl on Wed Oct 22, 2003 at 09:58:18 AM PST

One day a note was handed to my teacher, in my classroom in high school just before the bell rang.

He quickly explained to me that I needed to leave, that my mother would be out back to pick me up in a few minutes.

He told me the message said, 'she needed me for an emergency'.

I was puzzled, but hurriedly packed my books into my backpack, while he kept saying, "Go, Hurry, Hurry"  

Well as I was leaving the classroom, the bell rang, and many of the kids followed me to the back doors to maybe see what was going on, (and how I was getting out of school for the rest of the day).

My mother came careening around the cars in the parking lot and actually skidded to a halt.

She yelled out the window, "Karen I need you!!Hurry, she's having her babies right NOW!!!"

Well, that explained it to me, and I jumped in the car as the other kids oohed and aahhed.

Little did they know, it was a guppy...

Yes, my mother, (who had been a labor and delivery nurse) was one COOL MAMMA!!!!


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What a riot! (none / 0) (#6)
by Angelee on Fri Dec 05, 2003 at 06:11:23 PM PST

Yesterday, trying to explain that the reason I was late for my economics class and speech was that "we" were delivering babies. I'll never forget the look on her face when she found out it was one of my fish!
"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE
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Back when I was purposely setting up a lot of (none / 0) (#7)
by unclescott on Fri Dec 05, 2003 at 07:29:08 PM PST

killies to spawn, we would pick the eggs off of the spawning mops every day or so and gather 20-100 eggs in a small flat container. Infertile eggs would be eye-droppered out the first couple of days. If one or two hatched after two weeks, the others could be drawn out, along with some water using a turkey baster and put into a medicine vial. One breathed a little CO2 in there, capped it, put them in a pocket and went about one's business. The carbon dioxide, motion and body heat usually triggered or "forced" the other embryos into hatching. They needed to be gradually cooled down and removed within a day so they wouldn't suffocate.

Sometimes I would plunk a vial in my pocket and scramble off to school. Imagine what it does to a class to have the teacher, absentmindedly pull a medicine bottle from his pocket, go hummm and announce that he's a parent again. That was usually followed by the manditory passing of the vial around the room.

Disconcerted a bunch of history teachers and profs at a luncheon that way too.

On the rare occasion that teacher wore a sport coat, it became common knowledge there were too many vials of eggs hatching to carry just with shirt and slacks. Years later, while covering for another staff member on lunch room duty, a young lady came up and asked if she could ask a personal question. "Sure, probably... :) "  "Are you the guy who walks around with fish eggs in his pockets?"

It could have been worse. ;)

A.T.B.

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Out of the mouths of children huh?(laughing) (none / 0) (#8)
by Angelee on Thu Dec 11, 2003 at 03:58:59 PM PST


"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE
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