Some Things Never Come Back Down...

[cgronlund]

We have textured walls in the bathroom where I work. They are the same style of textured walls you see in new homes being built right now. Rip out the desks, hide the printers, and bring in couches and other furniture you'd see in a home and it would fit right in. Hell, one of the two buldings where I work even looks like a big, new house

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[anonymous]

In the womens' bathroom where I work, the stalls are gray with a whorled pattern all over them. I see shapes in those whorls, something new every day. Lots of clowns. You'd love it. Animals, faces, bodies, it's all there. I once asked my little group of 4 or 5 co-workers if they see things in the whorls, too. All but one backed slowly away from me, saying "no".

Maybe the striped and spotted jack rabbit appeals in much the same way "The Road Not Taken" appeals for some. What might have been. Or the thought that THAT jack rabbit was special and was going off to do who knows what? Whatever he wanted to do. Maybe a combination of things. Or maybe you just like the thought of being all striped and spotted and different from the pack :)

Mary

[cgronlund]

So what you're saying is my seeing things in walls is genetic, eh? :)

I think the story has a lot to do with the different jack rabbit going off to do something, and wondering what that something was. It was also the kids just knowing that would be the last time they saw the jack rabbit; they just knew, ya know?

There was nothing saying, "The different jack rabbit was destined for other things"; people just knew there was something different about it and that appealed to me, I guess.

That, and the thought of having stripes and spots, I'm sure, appealed to me.

Thanks for reading that story to me over and over as a kid; you were very patient because I seem to remember, even if you read other stuff to me from Rootabaga Stories, I insisted you read The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack-Rabbits, too :)