DailySusan Humor Blog

STILL NOT TO THE FIN-ISH LINE

A neighbor’s fish named “Fish” is over 12 years old, and is still going strong, despite a few pesky disabilities. Talk about the bass “running” . . . well, this little fish is “limping,” but he’s still in the race.

He has hemorrhages, which show up as Halloween eyes – blood red. He has strokes, after which he swims sideways like a drunken sailor for a while.

The big, fancy-tailed goldfish is mostly blind, so they purposely overfeed him in hopes that he can at least stumble onto some of the food before it falls to the gravel bottom of his aquarium.

No wonder he’s lived to be such a geezer. He was a tough fishie from the start. He was purchased in a school of a dozen “feeder” fish. They are usually little ones who are kind of sick and on their last “fins,” sold as “scrap” by the pet stores. He was supposed to be dinner for the resident piranha, now long gone, ominously named “Guido.”

Apparently, our hero was able to duck and bob and weave, and avoid getting eaten, for so many days that my neighbor took a shine to him. She fished him out, and put him in his own aquarium, where he has long since outlived Guido, and had the place of honor to the left of the kitchen sink ever since.

Now, that’s a fish story they can tell at the next AARG meeting – American Association of Retired Goldfish.

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Prayer request: Today is the birthday of someone I love very much, my cousin Mollie. May she be showered with Your blessings today, Lord, and reminded many times of how many people love her and wish her a happy, happy day. Give her the gift of increased faith, Lord Jesus, and strength to bear her burdens humbly and well. (Hebrews 11:1)