Everything about this skeet is fascinating to me. I have so many questions. How adroitly do the kids get around the rule? How is it enforced? How did it come to be? I am lost in a sea of curiosity, surrounded by slime-squirting hagfish.
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Early Covid, school was closed and kids were home as we tried to work. LOTS of nature documentaries, including a couple on deep sea animals and scavengers on whale falls.
After several meals hearing about slime and how hagfish tie themselves into knots to tear off flesh, the house rule evolved.
They are... not adroit. Like a friend will be over for dinner, and ask about favorite animals, and they get a mad gleam in their eyes, and try to argue that they were ASKED, that makes it OKAY to talk about it at dinner, otherwise it would be RUDe and I've told them not to be rude etc.
Or if someone says anything about a jaw, or scales, or bones, they'll jump in with, "you know who doesn't have those? HAGFISH that's who!" and we are a little overdramatic in response and they feel smug.
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After several meals hearing about slime and how hagfish tie themselves into knots to tear off flesh, the house rule evolved.