Less than a year ago, I began noticing a strange phenomenon in our neighborhood. Someone kept losing a plain bagel. Every 10 days or so, I would notice a lone, white bagel near the end of our street, by the main road. At first, I thought some kid was throwing his breakfast out the window of the school bus. Then, the bagel began creeping further down our street, more than a stone's throw from the main road. Now it's happening during summer break.Oddly enough, the bagel is always in perfect condition. No bites taken, and it's not a cheap grocery store bagel either. It's a big, fresh bakery one, or at least that's how it appears from my car window.
I began pointing out the bagel to my kids, who now crack up every time we see one on our street. Last week, the bagel was left right in front of our house, on the sidewalk. My kids think that someone is being kind to the critters and leaving the fresh bagel to feed the chipmunks, deer, raccoons, squirrels, etc. I don't know about that. Those animals get enough nourishment from my garden and everyone else's. I doubt anyone around here feels sorry for them. I tend to think that someone is doing it for a more naughty purpose. I just haven't figured out what it is yet.
What would be your hypothesis?
Must be a conspiracy; the evil alien out-of-this-galaxy types are doing it only to make you speculate, thus not noticing that they've infiltrated not just the deer, but the rabbits, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that's it.
Where's my tinfoil hat again??
That's really funny, in an oddly-bizarre kind of way. . .
ReplyDeleteAround here, some of the kids think it's funny to super-glue a nickel or a dime to the floor (eg in the grocery store), just to watch people try to pick it up. I'm sorta half-wondering if it isn't something like that. . .
I'd have to think its about feeding some critters, too. Maybe someone has befriended a stray pup?
ReplyDeleteSailor - Not being a scifi fan, I didn't think of that option.
ReplyDeleteCraig - I tend to think it's something like you describe where someone is trashing the 'hood on purpose.
Agent - With leash laws, there are no strays here. But it makes the most sense that someone is trying to feed something.
i think it's all the same bagel...or alien life form disguised as a bagel. it was sent here as a probe. if you cut it open you'll find all sorts of sophisticated monitoring equipment.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're coming from my mother-in-law. She has a neighbor who just got a job with a bread company, and every weekend, she sends more bagels, donuts, and loaves of bread home with me than we can ever imagine eating. I often send the boys out with the extras to tear up pieces for the birds, but knowing my kids, they're probably just flinging whole bagels out there. If their arms are that strong, I need to further explore this baseball fascination they've developed!
ReplyDeleteLime - you should write a book!
ReplyDeleteFADKOG - I do wonder if it's someone who works at Panera who's tossing the bagels. You should consider insuring your sons' arms!
You sure it ain't your kids getting a laugh out of you? Huh, huh??
ReplyDeleteX - I don't know where they'd be getting plain bagels. They are all too cheap to buy any for a prank.
ReplyDeleteBagels are forever .... just one dumpster dive behind a bakery could keep 'em in bagels for weeks!!
ReplyDeleteITA wih Sailor: This is some kind of test from an alien scientist...I'd look point at the bagel and yell " I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE UP TO AND IT WON'T WORK!!" That should take care of it.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome.
With the start of school last week, the bagel bomber is back!!! Saw 3 in 3 days!
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