The curse of the carved toad…

[fbhjr]

The Saturn I had before my current one was a SL2 sedan. I had bought it used and it had all sorts of options I would never normally pay for. Sun roof, cruise control, power locks, power windows, tape player. (It was a while ago. Before CD players were common.)

It was around the time my father way dying. He was in the hospital a few times before he actually died. Although I hadn’t spoken to my parents in 4 years, I went to see him in the hospital.
One of the times, my mother and brother were there. As is my way, I got into the elevator with them before my mother noticed I was there. My brother noticed at the doors.

At the end of the visit, my brother held out a small carved wooden toad.
“Here,” he said. “I want you to have this.”
Reluctantly, I took it from him.
“Why?” I asked, looking down at the little glass eyes placed into it.
“I just want you to have it,” he said.

Not trusting my brother much, I left it on the dashboard of my car.
Almost immediately, I started having car problems. For the next year, that car cost me almost $500 a month just in repairs. Finally I said “I could get a new car for less per month then this one is costing me.”
(I had also been using the car problems as a cover to have interviews for a new job, but that’s another story.)

Finally, I got a new car. (Well, new to me. It had 78,000 miles on it when I got it.)
“I’m not putting the toad in the new car,” I told my wife. “I don’t know what curse my brother put on it, but it’s not getting this one.”
“So, leave it at home,” she said.
“What, and have the house burn down?”
So my wife took it to where she works.
Her very nice job that she liked a lot became hell, and the whole place went down hill.

I don’t know where the toad is now.
But, I can guess.
I’m pretty sure it is somewhere in the boxes of office stuff she brought home when she changed jobs. I’m pretty sure it got into the house. Just about the time we started to have marriage problems.

Coincidence?
Probably.
But, only my brother knows for sure…

Comments

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Poison Toad.... :P

Time to go frog hunting...

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Yup, sure sounds like a poisoned toad to me, too !
I don't think that they take well to being thrown away in the garbage, either.
Maybe you should resort to the 'traditional' way of purifying things - find someplace to bury it in the ground for, like 5 years or so. Or purify it through fire !!!! bwahahahahahaha !

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I don't think turning it into smoke that I might breathe would be good...

[yebo.livejournal.com]

One word - regifting....