Money is the root of all evil. I rarely have change in my pocket (I throw it away), but last night I had two quarters in my pocket from parking to pick up my Sister at the airport. I was going to bed at about 3am, and I looked down at the pond, as I always do, and one of my big old bullfrogs was a little ways away from the pond. Well, you know how I love to throw things at animals (Hi, Wheeler), so I thought I'd drop the quarter next to the frog, startle the frog, and he would jump into the pond. It would accomplish my task of keeping the frog in line and it would be funny. I dropped the quarter and it hit about 2 inches from the frog and bounced. The frog didn't move its body, except to strike the quarter on the bounce. My frog ate my quarter. Well, my eyes aren't that good, but I couldn't see the quarter. I waited for him to spit it out, but he didn't. I hobbled (my foot is bad) down to the pond and the frog hopped away in to the pond. No quarter, either on the ground or in my troubled frog-killing mind. Man, I felt awful. Can a frog pass a quarter? Did he spit it out where I couldn't see it (it was on cement, so it's hard to hide a quarter)? When I got up today, Sandra (the frog expert) was looking, but both frogs seemed okay. Did he spit it out somewhere that I couldn't' see it? Or is he going to die later? I don't know. I'm such an idiot. A frog-jeopardizing idiot.

Penn

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