snatchkee
May 20, 2008
I am happy to report that I am not going crazy, nor am I suffering from memory loss. My typical morning ritual of ransacking the house, looking for car keys, minutes before the time I should be leaving for work, the rant to follow and subsequent hair-pulling, can all be easily explained away.
This morning, as I was systematically dumping out the entire contents of my purse with one hand and wiping tears of frustration with the other, I spotted, from the blurry corner of my right eye, the dread Snatchkee, tiptoeing along the baseboard, with the keys in question, in his grubby little mitts.
I immediately sprung into action, grabbing an empty mayonnaise jar from the recycling bin and with the agility and stealth of a… er… um… Labrador puppy, pounced and scooped the wee, pink, horned culprit into my jar. I punched some air holes into the lid and took him to work with me. I spent the whole commute scolding him while he sat pouting in his jar in the passenger seat and yes, I probably should have been paying more attention to my driving. In fact, I cut some poor lady off changing lanes on I5. Of course, had she not been on her cell phone… but, I digress.
Even as I write, the little monster is sitting on my desk, in his jar, making wide-mouth frog faces at me. Yeah, like that’s going to make me release him any faster. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with him.
What should I do? What would you do?
May 21, 2008 at 12:39 am
What you should do?
You should keep him in the jar.
I don’t want him taking my llaves.
. . . but he is pretty cute.
You are the best!
May 21, 2008 at 2:37 am
I totally feel for you. Not everyone knows of the dreaded Snatchkee!
I think you should keep him locked up. That’s one less Snatchkee to worry about!
But I agree, he does look kinda cute!
May 21, 2008 at 5:51 am
My question is “How did you get your keys in the process of scooping him up?”
Get him a small hampster run, throw in a few keys for him to play with, and keep him as a pet.
May 21, 2008 at 7:17 am
Stick him on a key ring!!
BTW I LOVE this!
May 21, 2008 at 8:25 am
i would give him kisses – its obvious he just needs love..hehe
May 21, 2008 at 9:00 am
Love, love, love your sense of humor. I laughed out loud several times reading your blog! 🙂
Keep the little sucker! Never let him out! I can’t catch his cousin at my house! I will have to try the mayonaise jar trick. 🙂
Cheers.
May 21, 2008 at 9:02 am
Please don’t let him go – there are already too many of them loose in my house and my office. Or do they live in my purse, hiding under the ever present paperback, with my keys dangling just out of reach?
May 21, 2008 at 10:31 am
But, he’s so darn cute!!
I always want to know the ‘why’ of things, so I say you put the spotlight on him, and interrogate his pink booty. What’s his master plan? What’s he going to do with all these keys, and could he find a substitute thing to steal that you wouldn’t miss so much, like junk mail??
May 21, 2008 at 10:37 am
Oh! He is far too cute. I don’t mind to adopt him.
He seems to have collected so many keys in his dark little den, have you find out who the owners?
May 21, 2008 at 12:05 pm
You could change professions and be the leader of a band of Snatch Key Pick Pockets! You could hold him hostage until all of his relatives join your shifty little group…. you could really clean up!… yes sir!
…..but that’s just me… do what you want!….
LOL! Clever, clever, clever girlfriend!
May 21, 2008 at 7:40 pm
cute little monster!
May 22, 2008 at 12:05 am
I would give him all of the old keys that don’t work and maybe a spare and put him back in his little cubby because he seems kinda special!
May 22, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hilarious! I think I have one of those living at my house, but haven’t spotted him yet! Maybe he is running with his evil twin, PhoneThief. Those little rascals….
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May 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Where do u get the time to be so creative. I can’t even put one thing together a week for the blog. But hey that’s me. Keep it up and always leave em laffing.
May 22, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I looks like he has quite a stash of keys in his Snatchkee hole. He is pretty cute, so I’d keep him in an aquarium, and maybe feed a couple of old keys each week.
May 22, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Hilarious!….and so cute (worthy of a book). Maybe you can give him a ring of all the misc. keys that everyone hangs on to and has no idea what they go to any more ….but don’t dare throw them away just in case they might need them!
May 22, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I have 3 snachkee in my house too, each one is looking at the right time to hide my stuff, my husband stuff and my daughter toys… not only keys! be carefull… ^_*
May 24, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I’d introduce him to Joey 😉
Besides, I have my own Snatchkee here, er…somewhere. Now where did I put him????