#coco speaks

I can't honestly say there is no such thing as a stupid question after working retail for seven years, but rest assured that none of you can outdo the grown woman who asked me if whole ungutted fish still has bones.

I was filling kids shoes today (oh yeah I got a new job btw. Same company different department) and I saw boys shoes with little spikes on the back and dinosaur skeletons on the soles and I got so jealous because why don't adults get cute shoe details like that before remembering I don't have to be jealous because I actually own three different pairs of shoes with bunny ears on them

there's been a Shrimpcident D:

actually being a paid musician in a dive bar basement is so funny. I can just go on stage and publicly admit to being a monsterfucker and get applause for it

so BBC did a dramatized version of Jim Corbett's The Man-Eater of Rudraprayag 20 years ago and I tracked it down to watch it because I really enjoy Jim Corbett's writing (fascinating bloke. Carried the normal colonial views of his day but had also worked out that if you were nice and respectful to the non-white locals they would be more cooperative, something which absolutely wowed his fellow Englishmen. Was an incredibly successful big game hunter but primarily hunted man-eating animals and campaigned for hunting vacations to become wildlife photography vacations) but the thing is, man-eating animals are something of a fascination of mine, and I've read a lot of accounts about different animals from different authors, so I was watching this dramatization just going "That didn't happen til later. That bit was from a different Jim Corbett story. That bit wasn't even Jim Corbett, that was Pardisi's 'The Scourge of a District' and he rightfully got shit for it and felt very regretful. Jim Corbett wouldn't have dreamed of doing that. Leopards don't do that. That one was a tiger."

School kids on a trip to the zoo are like "I NEED to harass this animal. I NEED to yell at it and bang on the glass"