That's the best armadillo story I've ever read. Bob
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Stenquist > Sent: 12 February 2008 11:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress > > I've been to Lincoln Park Zoo a number of times, but don't remember > the bear. When I was a kid, we most often went to Brookfield. They > were about equidistant from the Southeast side. > > My best memory of Lincoln Park Zoo comes from the days when I worked > on the race car. We were driving back from Miami with our truck and > trailer one Sunday night and saw some armadillos poking around near > the road. The guy who was driving decided to stop, and one of the > guys, who was a bit of a lunatic, jumped out and chased an > armadillo. He caught him and put him in the truck, thinking > we'd keep > him in our shop as a pet. Well, when we got back to Chicago that > Armadillo was very unhappy. Couldn't get him to eat. (Don't know why > he didn't like cheeseburgers), and the cold was making him sluggish. > So we decided to take him to Lincoln Park Zoo. After smoking > a bit of > weed. (The armadillo didn't like that any more than the cheeseburger.) > > At the zoo, we managed to find the administration building. We went > into the office with the armadillo in a box and told the > receptionist > we wanted to donate an armadillo. Well, it seems the curator > had been > hoping to get an armadillo for some time. Just the day before they > had tricked him with some kind of object made from an armadillo > shell. They had wrapped a blanket around it and presented it to him. > So, he of course assumed this was another trick and refused to come > out to the reception area. So we took the armadillo out of the box. > The office was quite warm and that seemed to please him. He (or she > as the case may have been) began scampering around the office > and the > receptionist screamed. That got the curator out there. In short, he > was thrilled. We lied and told him that the armadillo must have > crawled into our trailer while we were racing. Since they're an > endangered species, we didn't want to end up in the clink. He > pointed > out that armadillos are very timid and would never come near a > trailer, but he wanted an armadillo bad enough that he didn't press > the issue. So the armadillo moved into Lincoln Park Zoo, and we went > back to our cold shop, cheeseburgers and weed. > > And that's my Lincoln Park Zoo story, the only one I have:-). > Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
