We had a new friend this weekend! A bat came to live in our kitchen window!
I named him Mr. Pinches, after the way he somehow managed to trap himself between the two panes of our kitchen window. That’s where we found him on Saturday, wriggling away like a tiny, leathery-winged bum in withdrawl.
I have absolutely no idea how Mr. Pinches got trapped between the two panes of our kitchen window, but trust me, I found it thoroughly amusing.
My sister-in-law (she of the animal-loving, being-bitten-by-monkeys ilk) continued to exercise her death wish by opening the inside half of window in an attempt to coax Mr. Pinches out of his glass captivity. Fortunately, she was quickly shouted down by her sister and I, as we were somewhat less eager to welcome Mr. Pinches into the comfortable confines of our home.
Mr. Pinches made his escape sometime Sunday evening, presumably to be devoured whole by a bald eagle. Our kitchen window is a lot less evil looking today, being that there’s no longer a writhing bat right in the middle of it. A part of me misses Mr. Pinches. However, another part of me spent 40 minutes smearing Purell across our window and cursing him.
Anyway, my point is that finding a bat caught in your window is like getting a fresh pumpkin pie from Satan.
Oh my gosh… what is going on here??? We found a bat in our house on Friday! I assumed it was a fluke, but now there is no question that there is some sort of conspiracy here.
Does Rock TV have any enemies?
I bet Jeromy’s mad at us for putting videos from when he was 17 online.
Hmmm… does Jeromy have access to bats, or the ability to command them to do his bidding?
Perhaps it wasn’t two bats, but one bat, and that bat is Jeromy.
i remember lizards would get trapped in between the screens and windows at my parents house. one time the lizard didn’t make it out, and decomposed until it was simply a small lizard skeleton. good times.
Scott, is that real, or some bizarre lyric from a Randy Newman song?
I don’t think Jeromy is the bat, because I’m pretty sure my dog ate the one that was in our house. That was on Friday afternoon. Then I saw Jeromy at church on Friday evening. Then a bat showed up in Peter’s house on Saturday. So the timeline makes that scenario unlikely. Although, I will say that I’ve never seen Jeromy and a bat in the same room at the same time…
… I agree, I’m sure Jeromy didn’t appreciate that old Rock TV. He was so tiny back then.
Peter, totally real. i only know Pixar Randy Newman….well, that and Louisiana 1927.
I read an article about a woman that was just bit by some otter in a Wisconsin lake, I assume it was your sister-in-law
“So the timeline makes that scenario unlikely.”
Not if Jeromy turned into a time traveling bat.
You’re right, Thom.
I guess that is the most plausible explanation after all!
So… if my dog ate Jeromy before church last Friday, but after he got stuck in Peter’s window, which was actually the following day, what does that do to the space-time continuum? Will he be at church tomorrow?
Wait, was the bat wearing glasses to diguise its true identity? I’d say that would be proof positive.
Ryan, I think it is pretty obvious there will be no church tomorrow-canceled on account of the collapse of time and space and all existence.
No glasses. It did have a tiny faux-hawk though…
I’m glad we’re having this discussion, everyone.
Would you prefer us to discuss the fact that it probably is still in your house somewhere?
Hey, I’m unemployed. What else do I have to do?
I think it may be helpful to realize that for Jeromy, time doesn’t appear linear like it does for us. For him, time is just another dimension. He can simultaneously see the entirety of the timeline and yet step into it at will to intervene in order to accomplish God’s will. Or to turn into a bat and harass RockTV members.
We should all take note that we have just witnessed Jeromy’s death. We should mourn his as yet unknown life as well as the tragedy of Jeromy being eaten by Ryan’s dog. It will do no good to warn Jeromy of Ryan’s dog, it just is what it is. Even with this knowledge, he cannot change these determined events, only what happens between now and that day when he travels back in time to be eaten.
We all miss you very much future Jeromy.