The 2025 Trivial Drivel Thread

[username]

Damn. A red tailed hawk seemingly crashed into the dirt around 10 feet away from me a few minutes ago. It seemed to be struggling for a second and my dog charged it. It took off and I realized the hawk was likely trying to grab a rat (I’ve seen them in that area).

Stupid dog stopped the hawk from doing its job.

It was cool to see how fast and hard that hawk came in though!

[Clang McFly]

Damn. A red tailed hawk seemingly crashed into the dirt around 10 feet away from me a few minutes ago. It seemed to be struggling for a second and my dog charged it. It took off and I realized the hawk was likely trying to grab a rat (I’ve seen them in that area).

Stupid dog stopped the hawk from doing its job.

It was cool to see how fast and hard that hawk came in though!

I stopped a hawk from eating a squirrel. Saw a hawk in the park one day on the way home from work. Hawk saw me looking at him and dropped the squirrel and flew away.

[BigMark]

hawk-not-tuha-oy

[sally]

A hawk dropped a squirrel on my driveway once and the poor thing was going into what looked like convulsions. I thought about taking a shovel and ending it, but I couldn’t do it. I ended up taking the damn thing to my vet to euthanize it. He did it for free, but I would have paid.

[username]

A hawk dropped a squirrel on my driveway once and the poor thing was going into what looked like convulsions. I thought about taking a shovel and ending it, but I couldn’t do it. I ended up taking the damn thing to my vet to euthanize it. He did it for free, but I would have paid.

I wouldn’t be able to do it either. A neighbor once told me her guinea pig was dying so she sped it up with a bunch of melatonin? I don’t know if I’d trust melatonin but I could see od’ing a rodent with Xanax or something (challenge being getting it in them). The vet was the right call.

Next week a rodent company is coming out to reseal under our house (they found some gaps/signs that the rats might be starting to get in) and lay traps under the house and outside. I’d rather the hawk had taken off with one.

[sally]

I found a baby blue jay in my driveway once too, the nest was too high and I couldn’t reach it to put him back in. He was so stinking cute so I put him in a box and tied it to the tree and waited for his parents to come down and feed him which they did. The little bastard kept crawling out of the box though and falling to the ground with feral cats around. I must have put him back in it 20 times. I really wanted to keep him or her, but the last thing I need is a fucking blue jay flying around my house. I’m guessing he made it.

[MirahM]

There was a bird that fell out of the next and right in the path of the stairs at work so I went to pick it up and it fucking hopped under the shed. I felt like an idiot. That poor fucking bird, I don't know if it ever made it out of there.

[MirahM]

I've been watching frogs outside my window. There were 2, then I could only see 1 and now there is the original 1 and 2 small ones and one is brown. They are so cute.

[BigMark]

A gecko hangs out by the porch light and eats the bugs.

[username]

Just went to the post office and a guy sitting outside on a bench waved to me and asked me to call 911 because he was having problems breathing.

Called. Was asked if there was a defibrillator nearby but I would have had to leave Anthony to go look. So 911 is asking me if he’s sweaty or clammy (so I’m feeling Anthony’s forehead) and telling me to put him on his side if he passes out and GAH!!!

Poor Anthony. He wasn’t talking too well (but not entirely out of it either). He actually had a band on his wrist that he pointed at…he’d been in the hospital yesterday (is apparently kind of a regular). Smokes, has COPD and an artificial leg (diabetes maybe?). IDK. We talked a bit until the paramedics arrived. His wrist bracelet had his date of birth. 10 days older than me.

Makes me think I should probably take better care of my health. 

He told me a joke: “the difference between in laws and outlaws? At least outlaws are wanted”.

[rothschild]

Smokes and has COPD, but tells a mean joke.

[Duchess]

Poor Anthony. 

You did a wonderful thing, User. I'm glad it didn't work out this way, but you could have been the last person he saw on earth and you were showing him kindness. 

[username]

Poor Anthony. 

You did a wonderful thing, User. I'm glad it didn't work out this way, but you could have been the last person he saw on earth and you were showing him kindness. 

I kind of thought that in the moment and while I didn’t want the guy to need more help than I was able to provide, it felt good to be helpful in the moment.

Bottom line, I got something from being in the right place at the right time and from helping…

Honestly, he told me where he lived and I almost adopted him on the spot. I’ve done that a couple times and don’t regret it but I have a savior complex thing and I’ve had it consumes me.

6 years ago I took a woman who was recently homeless in with a giant mass on her head AND who didn’t have any I.D. and her citizenship was Canadian. Learned all about getting someone’s citizenship resolved, getting them MediCare and SS benefits and section 8 assisted living housing over the course of a year. 

I was so grateful (as was she) when she got a nice place to live in in Auburn, CA. Simultaneously, COVID was happening so I didn’t get out to visit her and she damn died a year or so later in her bed. Alone (except for her cat who was probably munching on her by the time she was found). 

R.I.P., Sandra.

[BigMark]

That happened to my barber she died alone in the hospital from cancer during covid.

[Duchess]

6 years ago I took a woman who was recently homeless 

I feel like I have a vague memory of this, you must have talked about her in Mock, but I don't think you went into detail like you did in this post.

[username]

6 years ago I took a woman who was recently homeless 

I feel like I have a vague memory of this, you must have talked about her in Mock, but I don't think you went into detail like you did in this post.

She was a pretty nice lady for the most part. She was also a full time job for a little over a year) and lived with me at my place for about 5 months of that year. The mass on her forehead got removed (benign) but I knew something was still very wrong with her health. Took her to the ER the day before I moved her and gave her a note to give to the Drs about all her symptoms (I couldn’t go in because of Covid). She never gave them the note so it was a waste of time. And, she stubbornly refused to get medical attention when she was in Auburn. 

Damn shame.

[Duchess]

I was reading about an infant gorilla whose entire family was slaughtered and the killers were trying to get the little one out of the country, he was found in a fucking box at the airport and it made me cry. I really don't know what comes over me anymore. I'm turning into a goddamn marshmallow. If that would have been a human child in the box I would have been able to talk about it without shedding a tear, but it was an animal and I kinda lost my shit.

[MirahM]

I have to turn off to read stuff like that. There have been similar stories recently and I cannot handle it.

User, those people are lucky to have had you in their lives. May we all be that fortunate in an unfortunate situation.

[Duchess]

I’m a fool for having read the story. *sigh* I know how that kind of thing bothers me and I read it anyway. All these hours later and I’m still dwelling on it.