Tale Of The Tell-Tale Quack
O.K. So Pugly had this toy duck. You couldn’t touch the thing without it making a distinctive “quack quack quack quack” sound. And no, that didn’t bother me.
What bothered me was that we went through two of them in fairly short order, such was his love of this plush toy duck.
First, the wings would be viciously pulled off. Then then neck would be ripped open. Then there would be stuffing everywhere. Then Pugly would eat the stuffing. Generally, the duck seemed to meet its end when my parents were around, by the way. I guess they just encourage him to destroy his beloved toys more than I do.
Anyway, once Pugly starts eating the stuffing, the duck has to be taken away. I’m fairly sure that all of that cotton fuzz is bad for Pug tummies. Over the weekend, I found where my parents had hidden the last duck when they took him away, so I dumped the mutilated duck into the trash can in the kitchen.
Little did I know that for the rest of the weekend…every time I’d put something into the trash in there…there’d be this faint, tell-tale sound…”quack quack quack quack”.
And Pugly would come running from the living room where he was keeping watch out the big picture window for home invaders like cardinals or blue jays. He’d look around the kitchen with wide brown bewildered eyes as I tried to look innocent. “Nope, no duck in here.”
And then I’d forget about it until the next moment of discarding. “quack quack quack quack.”
And all I could think about was Edgar Allen Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart and how this must be the kind of torture is had been for the poor man. Even now that the trash has moved out to the garage, I can here the faint sounds of “quack quack quack quack” in my dreams and see Pugly’s big brown eyes…
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on December 13, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Jenny Ryan said:
Too funny! Your poor little guy
on December 13, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Bond said:
Our dog Rocky used to love to tear into anything that squeeked, or made any noise.
on December 13, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Cameron said:
That’s hilarious. I love the “Tell-tale Heart” reference. So appropriate.