Please pick up your fish!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's so rude.

PP here. Not returning the fish. I mean it's rude to expect you to continue to take care of it.

[Anonymous]

Tell him the fish is going to a high-kill shelter.

[Anonymous]

Just keep feeding the fish. Didn't worry about cleaning the tank. Is the fish a beta fish? If it is it can last way longer than 3 weeks in dirty water.

[Anonymous]

How are you transporting fish back and forth? Obviously, not an aquarium? Just a small fish bowl?

Are you sure the dude is home? If he's ypur neighbor why do you have to drive over?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are you transporting fish back and forth? Obviously, not an aquarium? Just a small fish bowl?

Are you sure the dude is home? If he's ypur neighbor why do you have to drive over?

Please read the post. He lives a mile away. She has three small kids. Walking a mile with a fish+kids to his home with the possibility that he is not home does not sound fun.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm sure that your predicament is not making you smile, but your post made me smile. Thank you for posting, and I hope that you are able to solve the fish problem to everybody's benefit, including the fish's.

[Anonymous]

OP back again. I have no idea why I am worrying about a little fish. It's a small tank, not a bowl. So it has a plug-in filter and a plug-in light. I do not want to drive over with it in case he's not home. And my kids are too little to stay home by themselves. And yes, lesson learned!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two Sundays ago, a neighbor asked whether we would babysit his fish. He was going on vacation with his family, and their regular sitter just canceled. He said he would be back in a week. It's now Tuesday and he hasn't been back to pick up his fish. I had to go buy more fish food. It's not a big deal as the fish is extremely low maintenance. But I am wondering whether his tank should be cleaned. I don't have the supplies to do that.

Said neighbor lives about a mile away. We (me + three kids) get home from work/school/daycare at 6PM. Should I drive to his house and ask when he's coming by for the fish? I don't have his phone number.

Their sitter as in fish-sitter? This is the perfect end to my crazy day!!!

[Anonymous]

Op, are you always so trusting? You don't know their last name and you don't have a way of contacting them. Sounds like you basically took a strangers fish.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what's funnier, the situation or the responses. You're too trusting!?!? Flush it? )

[Anonymous]

This sounds like a Seinfeld episode!!

"I'm just wondering...When will he get the FIIISH???"

response:

"I'm just wondering....Why did you TAKE the FIIIISH???"

"He needed help with the FIIIISH!!!"

response: "YOU TOOK A STRANGER'S FIIIISH!"

[Anonymous]

Haha. This is so freaking stupid.

[Anonymous]

OP here. This is totally a Seinfeld episode. What is going to happen next is that the neighbor comes to pick up the fish on Thursday. But the fish will die on Thursday, right before he picks him up. Of course, I will say, he was still alive on Sunday when you were supposed to pick it up! But neighbor will think it's been dead the entire time!!

My DH gets home around 7PM - I may ask him to go to neighbor's house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave a note in his mailbox.

Leave the fish in his mailbox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This is totally a Seinfeld episode. What is going to happen next is that the neighbor comes to pick up the fish on Thursday. But the fish will die on Thursday, right before he picks him up. Of course, I will say, he was still alive on Sunday when you were supposed to pick it up! But neighbor will think it's been dead the entire time!!

My DH gets home around 7PM - I may ask him to go to neighbor's house.

I love this thread.