In Memory of Frodo and Gilbert

Two fish died at my daycare. This happened several days apart. When Frodo died, we weren’t sure he was dead. Then we realized, fishes aren’t suppose to float sideways like that. My co-worker Danielle and I brought him to the toilet. We said a few words about Frodo. I forget what he said but I just said some lines that I took from a movie and some of my own. What’s funny to me is the two fish got their names after they died. Like there lives were so unimportant but their deaths were so entertaining for me that I named them.

Earlier in the summer, we were moving some of the fish around because the fish tank was broken, so we were doing everything to keep them a live. One of the directors (we had two during the summer because it was two staff teams combined) was talking about ideas for crafts that the kids could do.

I told her if one of the fish die, we could have the kids make a casket out of a cardboard box and decorate it. I recently saw that episode of “The Office” at the time when Michael was afraid of death because his old boss died. Later on in the episode, they end up putting a dead bird in a cardboard casket, decorated by Pam.
I said a lot of daring things to the other staff’s director that summer.

Good times.