A Tale of Two Fish

Marlboro Man checks out the new aquarium.

On Saturday a few of us rode our bikes to the Lilac Festival in Highland Park. We locked the bikes up to the fence by the reservoir and walked around the park. I left my helmet in my trunk (metal milk crate) because it's old and crappy and I don't care if it gets stolen. When we got back to the bikes I found a surprise in my helmet- the two fish pictured above! Someone must have won them and not wanted them. Jude saw it as an act of meaness while I saw it as a sweet surprise. Normally people just throw garbage in my basket- if it had been two dead halibut I would have been pissed. The fish in their plastic bags fit snuggly in my helmet (I forgot I could have used B's mobile phone to take a picture of them) so there they stayed for the ride home. I wonder how many fish have ever gone on a bike ride. Of course I sadly imagine their imminent death as they are carnival fish who had an extra traumatic experience. I had to relocate them from their nice perch on the red bookshelf because evil Irma had her cat's eye on them and I found evidence that she had tried to climb the shelf. I decided to call them Helmut and Yo-Yo due to the circumstances of their arrival and as a nod to Jim Jarmusch (from his film "Night on Earth"). I just hope they enjoyed the bike ride. -JL