A Talisman Moment
This post will be the first in a series of 'Talisman Moments'
For those of you who don't know, I work at Talisman Mountain Resort. The Mountain part is a bit of a misnomer because it's really a valley, which may give you a little insight what this place is like from the get-go. A lot of things happen at work that we call 'Talisman Moments'.
Usually these are things that make you scratch your head and say "Why the hell would they do that?"
Usually these things also involve something going wrong that has to be fixed. Usually the ones that have to fix it are the outside maintenance department or the golf course workers, of which I am one.
Recently it was decided that one of the decorative ponds around the hotel should be stocked with Koi. This sounded like a great idea to the people that came up with it. What they failed to realize was that about 5 years ago someone else had the brilliant idea to stock the same pond with rainbow trout.
These particular trout have been living in the same small pond now for the last five years and have grown to monstrous proportions and are quite territorial. They've been know to attack people. All but two of them survive now, but our theory is that they ate the other ones and absorbed all their powers. We were waiting for one of the remaining trout to finish off the other one and become all powerful.
It looks like that is unlikely to happen for a while now though because the two remaining trout have recently gorged themselves on about $500 worth of hapless Koi.
Ciao for Niao
Junk
For those of you who don't know, I work at Talisman Mountain Resort. The Mountain part is a bit of a misnomer because it's really a valley, which may give you a little insight what this place is like from the get-go. A lot of things happen at work that we call 'Talisman Moments'.
Usually these are things that make you scratch your head and say "Why the hell would they do that?"
Usually these things also involve something going wrong that has to be fixed. Usually the ones that have to fix it are the outside maintenance department or the golf course workers, of which I am one.
Recently it was decided that one of the decorative ponds around the hotel should be stocked with Koi. This sounded like a great idea to the people that came up with it. What they failed to realize was that about 5 years ago someone else had the brilliant idea to stock the same pond with rainbow trout.
These particular trout have been living in the same small pond now for the last five years and have grown to monstrous proportions and are quite territorial. They've been know to attack people. All but two of them survive now, but our theory is that they ate the other ones and absorbed all their powers. We were waiting for one of the remaining trout to finish off the other one and become all powerful.
It looks like that is unlikely to happen for a while now though because the two remaining trout have recently gorged themselves on about $500 worth of hapless Koi.
Ciao for Niao
Junk
posted by Junk in the Trunk at 11:11 PM
7 Comments:
Wow, you seem to be cursed with biology lately.... the natural world appears to be out to get you. I suggest staying inside for a while and playing Mario Speedwagon.
That's a hilarious waste of wildlife. My non-fondness for nature lead me to a fit of giggles at reading that.
Alright...so maybe not a fit.
Wow! How could something like that actually happen?
Lydia - Are you saying you don't like nature? (scratches head)
Hahaha! mmmm....trout.
Dude, you have to eat those trout, then YOU WILL GAIN ALL THEIR POWER!
and what the hell happened to your links?
So Joel, are we ever going to get to read another installment of "Talisman Moments"? Something hilarious has to have happened since the great Koi feast of '06... (Although the post does keep it's re-read value pretty well)
Soon enough
"Soon enough? but that's not soon enough!"
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