Fried or Boiled?
When I was just 10 or so my brother had 2 gerbils, a black one (called snowflake for some bizarre reason) and a white one.

One day I decided (God knows why) to put the white gerbil in the microwave to 'see what happened'. In my 10 year old brain I was just thinking it would be funny to watch it run round on the little turntable. The radiation and actual damage it would do to the gerbil didn't occur to me.

Anyway this suddenly dawned on me and I grabbed it out of the microwave shaken but apparantly unharmed. A few weeks later it got these huge boils on it's body and had to be put down by the vet. You can imagine how bad I feel about this.

The story, however, is not yet over. My other brother, saw this happen and proceeded to blackmail me about this threatening to tell my parents / other brother. I got sick of this so hatched a devious plan.

I went and told my parents that HE put the gerbil in the microwave. He tried to defend himself and obviously a huge row ensued. He ended up in the shit and I was off the hook.

He however then told them that the event never happened and he dreamt it and decided it would be a good thing to blackmail me with which is why I said that he had done it.

They accepted this story but my mum spent the next few years when ever she suspected him of lying saying 'Are you sure you didn't just dream it.'

I felt guilty every time I heard that. Not only because I microwaved a gerbil but also because I managed to make my brother look like a right 'tard in the process.

Anyway sorry if this doesn't make much sense , I've never admitted it before and in retrospect it seems slightly amusing.

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( aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Mon 3 Sep 2007, 12:25, Reply)