I have been collecting shells at the beach. I am going to make my sister and her girlfriend a Shell Jar (buy a glass jar, fill it with shells, voila! A Shell Jar). I only want the most perfect shells for the shell jar. Two of the most perfect, gorgeous shells I found had something living in them. Rather than flinging them back into the ocean and admonishing them to “LIVE!”, I picked them up, thinking sorry little suckers, you gotta die. And now I’ve been waiting . . . and waiting . . . for them to die and leave their shell-homes. My guilt over killing these little shell-beings is proportionate to the stink they are causing. It’s disgusting! Little gushy things are starting to come out of the shells. Ohhhhh it’s gross. One thing I can tell you is that I have learned from this experience. Never again will I bring a live thing home. I feel guilty! I feel like a murderer. What is this doing to my karma? I’m probably going to step on something sharp and infectious at the beach. I’m sorry, little shell gushies! Never again, ok?
I will step in here and absolve you of all sin, by the power invested in me by….MYSELF ha ha ha!
As long as you didn’t run over a fluffy, warm-blooded creature, then I think you won’t go to Hades. (That sucks about the stench, though – I think you’ve paid your karmatic dues by smelling that!!)
You are very sweet to make a shell jar for your sister & her gf by the way!! You had the best of intentions! XOXOXOXOX
p.s. you could wrap up the stinky carcasses in a special “smell jar” and send them to Comcast as a gift!!! NOT! 😉
Thanks for the absolution my love! ❤ Oh my first and last time . . . xoxoxo
You should keep them as pets.
If you could only see them….
Or just throw them in the jar still alive.
I don’t think they can survive away from the ocean . . . and I think it would seem like a punishment rather than a gift if I gave my sister and her gf some putrid dying shell-gushie animals . . .
Well, put them in the middle — as long as they keep the lid closed everything should be fine! Haha
Wear steel-toed boots next time you’re cruising the seashore in your bikini. You’ll be fine =D
Yeah, that’d be quite the look wouldn’t it? 😀
Can you still return them to the beach? You may still have time to stop the bad karma. You don’t want to come back as a shell creature in your next life.
They smell so bad, I think they must be dead 😦
this might sound terrible but maybe like scrub them out? they’re probably dead anyway
I think they’re dead now . . . 🙂