*CRUNCH* *SQUELCH*
“Oh shit, I’ve just trodden on a snail.”
The footpath outside the front of our house is flanked on both sides (is that tautology?) with low bushes that are home to a host of creepy crawlies including it’s most popular residents: worms, slugs and snails. When Akra Jr was two years old, it used to take us half an hour to travel the few hundred yards along this path as he would insist on inspecting in detail each and every snail we came across.
Now, with the current wet weather, this path has become a slug and snail slalom. Most days I remember to weave the pushchair and us along, narrowly avoiding the squelch factor. Every now and then I forget.
Now, slugs I think are fair game, but I do feel sorry for the snails. Which is bizarre really, as snails are just slugs with a fancy home and better PR. Oh, apart from the extra squelch factor that slugs seem to have – their innards seem to be almost luminous and spread a lot further than the average snail.
RIP little snail. I *am* sorry.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Miss L // 23rd Oct 2004 at 4:28 pm
Get tough! You need to start counting those out too!
2 Paula // 24th Oct 2004 at 10:34 pm
Worse is if you own a dog or cat, or both like us, and find half a slug/snail/whatever! Oh and there is the bits of mouse the cat leaves us, not always a whole specimen and I have stood on a head once, barefoot in the summer. Ug!
3 Mitchell // 25th Oct 2004 at 9:52 am
I have figured for a long time that the answer to this problem was a good dose of salt mixed into the concrete …
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