Personal Experiences!

[Sawyer]

Not trying to get off subject, but my new computer is now complete!!! My monitor arrived today!

Yup, it's sitting on our counter.

[Pixx]

Yay for your new computer...I'm thinking about a story to tell...hmmm

[Aussie Karima]

;D Spill PIXX! if you tell, I will tell you about my encounter with a BAT!

[Pixx]

LOL a BAT!!! You tell your bat story first and I'll tell you mine...it's so gross!!!

[Sawyer]

A bat?!

[Pixx]

Mine involves a bunch of bats and lots of poop

[Sawyer]

*twitch* *hates bats and feces*

[Pixx]

;D ;D Wait until you hear what happened to me *shudders*

[Sawyer]

Well stop giving me bad internal images and just tell us already! ;D

[holleyberry]

I stayed out overnight to get tickets to a Concert.
I was really into country music at the time and a couple of girlfriends and I decided to do the "Camp Out" thing to get tickets to Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's first Soul to Soul tour.
It was fun and scary and boring and I had to work 8 hours the next day. Oh to be 21 again.

[Sawyer]

Lol, Holley, I've always wanted to camp out somewhere in public!

[Aussie Karima]

You know what! I have never done that!

:-*Loves for you too, Holley I hope you are feeling OK?


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[Aussie Karima]

Jun 16, 2009 18:29:41 GMT -5 Pixx said:

Mine involves a bunch of bats and lots of poop

Mine only involves one bat & no guano!(poop!)

[Pixx]

LOL well I'll tell mine now.

I went to spend the day at a friend's house, her parents are researchers at this scientific college thing. So when I went there they were just about to take a group of students to the caves to research rocks and the animal life there. Now, I was wearing a cotton shirt, long jeans and tennis shoes. My mom already made it quite clear that she didn't want me to go swimming (because we usually went down to the sea, the island is surrounded by a beach and ocean and the college was right in front of a beach)

So we all ended up at the cave and i was supposed to sit at the entrance. There were about eighteen students, my friend, her mom and two or three professors. I went with them on the walk deeper into the cave, it was my first time there so I didn't know that you can only walk so far and would have to swim the rest of the way.

Wel, we got to the part where the path ended and the water began, this time the walls were covered in guano ( ) and the water that was dripping from the cave's roof would have been fresh but...er hem, it was brown, we would have to swim through bat poo!!!

Now, I should have turned around right then but everyone was like "come on!" I couldn't take off my jeans or pants because I had nothing to wear and I didn't take my shoes off because I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find them again. So I hopped in fully dressed. I was not a strong swimmer at the time (I'm surrounded by water but never learnt how to swim, you'll be surprised how many bahamians can't).

The water was freezing cold so it gave my bladder a mind of it's own, I probably peed five times before we swam around the whole thing. So for the first part the water wasn't that deep, you could wade. But then it started to get deeper which required me to swim in now heavy jeans and tennis shoes and shirt. Of course my legs were already numb from cold so when we made it to the deep end, the first thing I did was sink.

OMG I swallowed a mouthful of bat guano!!! And I'm gonna tell you how it tasted, not as bad as you would think because these bats ate mostly fruits. LOL my friend and her mom pulled me up but I still had to fend for myself. The first thing I did afterwards was grab onto the nearest student, she freaked and went under and came up choking. Then she proceeded to tell my friend's mother that I tried to drown her (I was about twelve or thirteen, maybe fourteen and weighed no more than eighty pounds, the was probably eighteen plus and weighed more than one fifty).

While we were swimming bats were screeching over head and pooping all at the same time. And of course my day wasn't bad enough so one bat decides to fly low and nearly took out my eyes.

By the time we made it back to the entrance, my clothes were soaked with bat waste, water and who knew what else, my hair was beginning to frizz and I looked like a drowned rat. I was having one serious 'NOW WHAT?' moment.

When we got back to my friend's house, her mother washed my clothes and dried them, I took a quick shower and dressed, did my hair over and when my mom came to get me she had no idea. Of course I told her a day or two later

[Aussie Karima]

OK! after I stop laughing I will spill! ;D ;D

YOU ASKED FOR IT,

I was twelve nearly thirteen, I was the chief bottle washer & housekeeper & cook for my other younger siblings as my mom was always out or at work!this one night my girlfriend came over & complained that it was my turn to look after our shared aggistment horse (it is a horse that you look after for someone else with the only outlay being your time,as neither one of us could afford a horse of our own & our town had more horses than people!6 to ever person!) any way she told me at about 5.00pm, but after getting the girls to do there homework which I (dyslexic here!)had to help them with! getting them bathed, feed, all the while getting the washing in, ironing & sorting out the washing for the next day & cleaning the house,dishes & such, it was 8.30pm before I even had a breather, the girls were in bed & mom was still not due home! (she use to get home about midnight as she had to go to work the next day!) anyway after I checked that the girls were asleep I went to get the horse to take her to a new paddock ( as all our neighbors helped out & we had a regular rotation)each place had a shelter for the horse at night & brushes, hoof pick & blankets for rain & cold!& feed from the owners of the horse! So the only thing I had to move was the horse, & as I hated saddles I rode her through the poorly lite country roads bare back as it was quicker than walking her, plus, I could if I wanted, tell her to go here or there & she would take me there without any further instructions, I had to go down my street to get to the paddock as normally I would go cross country! this night there was hardly any moon & it was exceptionally dark, I think there must have been low cloud cover, anyway I was shocked to see all the lights on in the house & as I got closer I could see my mothers car in the drive(we lived on the side of a mountain! & the drive was cut out so the car was level with the road) you literally could not see the car until you were quite near to it! Anyway next thing I knew was my mother threw something at me then yelled out at me! now my mother knows diddle squat about horses & both of those actions spooked the horse & Lady took of like a bat out of hell! Thank god she stayed on the road as one side dropped sharply away in places (side of mountain, remember!) So I am trying to hang on with my legs for dear life, as I did not put her bridle on the only thing I could grab was her very short main, which I had trimmed several days before, the whole time trying to calm her down,she was just starting to calm down!......next minute I know something hit me in the chest & then proceeded to start making all this strange squeaking & squawking & screaming! which spooks the horse again! now before I was talking her down & making sure she did not throw me, by keeping a firm grip on her short main, now I was trying to get this bat untangled from my chest, covered in a loose knit shirt & my very long hair, all the while gripping the horses belly with my legs hoping I did not fall off or even worse get thrown off! As my hands were very busy simultaneously trying to free the bat from my hair & bouncing chest covered in a knitted fabric that made the whole thing impossible, as the bat was struggling to get free & was flapping its wings & getting more tangled by the second so I started to use a soothing voice to calm both the bat & horse while trying to keep upright, holding on without the use off my hands & trying to stop getting scratched as well, not very successfully though as I was more worried the bat or horse would break something, with all that was happening,... The next thing that happened was the shocker! my mum on the war path had gotten in her car & had come up behind me! she proceeded to flash her lights & beeping the horn! the horse stopped dead & I kept going with the bat attached I knew I was going to face plant if I did not think quick so I tucked my head under & curled myself as best I could bat & all! I succeeded (I was a swimmer & used a tuck & curl I used in diving, but this time NO WATER!) I landed with a thud on my back,that knocked the wind out of me & with a tearing noise, the bat free! I was trying to slow down my sliding momentum with my legs & feet & grabbing the the long grass as it slide by!the next minute I was standing upright in a ditch That was taller than me! I had landed beside the road & ended up in a dirt drainage ditch! If I had been knocked out, no-one would of found me in the dark, made worse by the fact that it was very over grown!!!! I hid there until my mother went away saying she was locking me out(nothing new in that!)my dog eventually found me,and somehow I climbed out, called the horse & took her to the paddock, checked she was all right by running my hands all over her ( it was pitch black by this time)I then made my way back to the house, all the lights were out, so I crawled through the window in our bedroom that we never lock, because I got regularly locked out! I had to have a bucket bath as I did not wish to wake my mother up & then finally crawled into bed, my alarm clock read just gone 2.00am, it was my duty to get everyone up & ready in the morning,so I set my clock & went to sleep!

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