My wife's first night after moving to Texas: I'm driving her home from the airport to our apartment, it's pretty dark already. About 30 feet away from our parking space, I see something scampering towards us, so I stop. "Oh look! An armadillo!" I exclaim.
My wife, absolutely stunned, watches and then loudly asks, "WAIT, THOSE THINGS ARE REAL?! I thought they were made up our mythical!"
Her only knowledge of armadillos was from Friends, when Ross dresses up as "the Holiday Armadillo," because all the Santa costumes were taken. Chandler's unfamiliarity and it being used as a substitute for Santa and... Well, I can see how the math adds up.
Anyway, her shock and wonder, as though she'd just seen a unicorn, is a memory I'll always cherish.
19 Comments
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 278d
Be careful with that one. They grow up to be quite dangerous
jqubed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 277d
Don’t they carry bubonic plague?
Artisian@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 278d
Oh my the zoo has a video!
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 278d
Thank you for this gift!
toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
"Segway" is an interesting name for an armadillo.
edit: Another comment has clarified things.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 278d
Oh my god I want one.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 278d
My wife's first night after moving to Texas: I'm driving her home from the airport to our apartment, it's pretty dark already. About 30 feet away from our parking space, I see something scampering towards us, so I stop. "Oh look! An armadillo!" I exclaim.
My wife, absolutely stunned, watches and then loudly asks, "WAIT, THOSE THINGS ARE REAL?! I thought they were made up our mythical!"
Her only knowledge of armadillos was from Friends, when Ross dresses up as "the Holiday Armadillo," because all the Santa costumes were taken. Chandler's unfamiliarity and it being used as a substitute for Santa and... Well, I can see how the math adds up.
Anyway, her shock and wonder, as though she'd just seen a unicorn, is a memory I'll always cherish.
JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 278d
Wait until you see holding on to its fave plush toys 🫠
klemptor@startrek.website · 10 pts · 278d
Are you gonna just leave us hanging? Make with the link!
Hathaway@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 278d
Why did this take 116 years? Are breeding couples uncommon? Do they not breed in captivity? Do they have the longest pregnancy in the animal world?
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 278d
Yes, the mother gives birth after being dead for 95 years.
Hathaway@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 278d
Just as I suspected!
molten@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 278d
I hate that the existence of AI has forced me to look into this to make sure it's real.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 278d
It doesn't even need AI, they straight up look like clay figures
ivanovsky@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 278d
Baby better be called Coconut
Artisian@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 278d
I am so sorry to report that the pup has been named Segway. (Parents are Vespa and Scooter; so this follows a family tradition).
Sphks@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 278d
"Pokeball" would be my choice. Or "Pikachu I chose you" but it's too long.
bampop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 278d
That's a little bakugan boi
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 278d
*its