Fill The Lake
Quack is grumpy today.
To be fair, Quack was grumpy every day.
You probably would be too if your name was "Quack." Sure, he's a duck, but his parents could have been a little more imaginative. All day, every day he gets teased because of his name. All the other ducks have names like "Theodore" and "Malinda." All Quack wants is to be accepted and to fit in.
Right, but I said that Quack is upset today. That's actually another irritant that's been poking at him. Well, nibbling to be precise. You see, Quack spends most of his time in a local pond and the fish there have taken to biting at his feet. They don't really have teeth so can't do any damage, but Quack just wants to have a nice, peaceful day at the pond and he continues to be harassed.
That all started two weeks ago and although he complained about it for a week, he didn't really do anything about it. Then, finally he snapped! Now look at him. Ol' Quack is zooming around and trying to suffocate the fish by dropping leaves on them. I asked him his plan and he muttered something about collecting all the leaves and dropping them in the pond. If they float, they fish won't have sun and will die of depression. If the leaves sink, then he'll keep dumping leaves until the pond is full of leaves and the fish don't have water in which to swim.
I'm worried about him! He's always been a bit given to depression, but this seems different. Do you have any ideas for how to help him?
You don't care? You're leaving? What about Quack?!!
Bah, I'll have to think of something on my own. Poor, sad, tortured duck. I wish I knew how to help you.
Oh, and now it's raining! Just great! Quack isn't going to take this well. It will NOT be "water off a duck's back." I can't imagine what he'll do next.
Hey, buddy, stay out of Quack's way!
In fact, I'm out of here.
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Howdy sir noname! haha! Hey Quack has some serious problems but I don't know what to tell him! But I do really like that picture of the pond and those red leaves! Is that what inspired the story?
Yep, the picture is always the one that inspires the story. :)
howdy again sir Blondie! oh cool, is that in a local park? Because it looks like a nice place to hang out. Are you going to the coin shop this weekend?
Poor Quack! Malinda is a good name... But would be pretty bad if Quack is a boy!
Hey, I could see how you'd like the name. Yeah, Quack is a boy, so maybe that's why his parents chose not to name him Malinda or Melinda. They didn't want "A boy named Sue" situation.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I had a pet duck when I was a kid and I named him Quack. It's not such a bad name! 😁
Quack just has all kinds of problems, @themanwithnoname. What's a duck to do when he's made of by his own kind and fish won't leave his tender feet alone? It's sad that he would go to the extreme of depressing fish or essentially drowning them with air.
Some days, it's not worth rolling out of the bush, or pile of hay, or wherever Quack sleeps, because you just know it's going to be lousy, so you might as well just stay there than get homicidal.
I think he was just feeling a little overwhelmed. It's tough when you can't get some peace and quiet. Even ducks need a break from it all sometimes. Yep, no one really saw Quack committing fishicide, but life can drive a duck to do terrible things.
Hopefully Quack will have a better day tomorrow. And then maybe all the fish won't have to die. Or maybe the fish could just be nicer.
I don't know how much Perry Mason you've watched over the years, but there always seemed to be shows where the otherwise nice person was driven to murder because of the actions of the truly evil character in the story.
While I don't condone murder, and obviously, it was still fiction, I've wondered just what I'm supposed to get out of any of that. Even bad, nasty, people don't deserve to die, or killing is never justified?
I would imagine, though, along with the actual killing, the other problem was, they were trying to get away with it, and usually letting someone be framed, if not purposefully doing it, so the act of murder was compounded with lies and so forth.
Now, we've got anti-heroes running around killing people left and right in our movies and television shows, and all of its somehow justified.
Hi @themanwithnoname :) Poor poor Quack! At least his name isn't Duck.
That's actually a really beautiful photo! Did you take it?
Duck would have been too much. Thankfully his parents had the good sense not to name him that.
Unfortunately, it's not my picture. I just grabbed it off Pexels. Thanks for thinking I could take a picture like this though. :)
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