Uh oh – Molch might be in trouble!

[Molch]

There’s excitement in the Molch house – Grandma Molch (hereafter called Oma Molch) will be visiting from Germany the week after next! However, this has also caused Molch Jr some worries and frantic house-cleaning and newt managing efforts:

It’s not that Oma Molch doesn’t like newts – after all, she raised Molch Jr from a pollywog and there were many, many newts and assorted other slimys and crawlies along the way :blob: – it’s just that she prefers them in her garden pond and not in her bedroom.

It all goes back to one fateful night ca. 1973, when Oma Molch came back from a party quite late and quite fulla beer and was greeted in the hallway by a very confident male L. vulgaris (then T. vulgaris) in full breeding plumage, :uhoh: who was on his way out the front door after having emancipated himself from one of Molch Jr.’s aquariums, “strutting down the hall like he was paying the rent”, as Oma Molch would claim for years afterwards. This unusual sight, in combination with the platform shoes and the beer, caused Oma Molch to trip over her bell bottoms and break out in a hysterical fit right there on the floor of the hallway ,:violent: which flushed her startled children (Molch Jr. and bro) from their bedroom, wondering if the old lady had finally gone hither.

Nowadays Oma Molch is a fashionable old German Lady who wields a mean curling iron and no longer consumes any beer and will in fact use said curling iron on anyone who claims she ever did so. :kill:

When Molch Jr. announced during a recent phone conservation that “there would be a few newts”, there was a pregnant pause before Oma Molch commented “I thought you would have outgrown that by now.”

Outgrown? Fat Chance, Oma! :ha: :ha: :ha:

Now Molch has been working hard to create a newt-free zone in the living room area, :angel: which means all the newts have moved into the bedroom (see attached pics), which is also where Oma Molch will reside during her stay and where she will be surrounded by newts on 3 sides. :errr:

How will it go? Will Oma Molch coexist harmoniously with the newt population? Molch Jr encourages you all to cast a vote in the attached poll!

 

[Azhael]

I thoroughly enjoyed the story, Molch xD
I have to say that keeping your caudates in your own room is not that bad, i´ve been doing so for over 3 years and i assure you, we have an uncanny capacity for getting used to it xD One would have thought there might have been an ancient biological imperative to separate the place you sleep in from slimy creatures, but apparently if it ever excited, it´s broken now.
In fact the only disadvantage of sharing a close space with caudates is that if you use the old method of just cracking up a window to lower the temps for them, you can expose yourself to considerably unpleasant conditions xD However given where you live i suspect cold is not a big deal.

I´m particularly fascinated by the "who knows?" container as such misterious creatures seem to sprout into existence at random, and only occasionally have an apparent purpose.

I don´t know how the Oma Molch vs Newts conflict will develop, but i find that in my case (and rather similar circumstances) pointing to my wicked, evil tarantula seems to concentrate all the attention in him. So my advice, if anything, is to get just one of something that she likes even worse

 

[Molch]

well, the bedroom is the coolest room in the house, hence a natural newt room. It hardly ever, even on hot summer days, gets over 65 F. At night, Molch, the newts and 3 big dogs all pile in there and we all prefer it to be cool.

 

[Bellabelloo]

I wonder if Molch Jr may wish to reside in the heavenly newt room while Oma sleeps in Jr's room

 

[Niels D]

Especially the option with the coffee creamer!

Oma is also the Dutch word for grandma.

 

[Molch]

I wonder if Molch Jr may wish to reside in the heavenly newt room while Oma sleeps in Jr's room

I fear Ms. Julia overestimates the size of Molch Jr.'s digs - the newt room IS Molch Jrs room, the only other option being a living room area couch and a loft, which requires some ladder climbing unsuitable to Oma's fashionable attire and current level of athletic prowess

 

[Kaysie]

I imagine it would be difficult to climb a ladder in platforms and bellbottoms.

 

[Otterwoman]

I think you ought to be more concerned about how she takes having to bathe in the freezing creek.

 

[mewsie]

Oh Molch, you do make me laugh.

Oma Molch sounds awesome, i think all us Caudata weirdos should come round and visit on the first night, then she'll have a new appreciation for how normal you are and how lucky she is *nods*

 

[evut]

I think you need to make Oma appreciate that it could be much worse... thinking about the "owners start to resemble their pets" scenario...

Just imagine, you could be walking around like an Egyptian, yawning, then start to rub yourself against furniture to remove old skin which you then eat. Later at dinner, as soon as you smell food, you start biting everybody's arms and legs in a frenzy.... see, just having a few tanks around doesn't seem so bad now, does it???

 

[Otterwoman]

I have an idea, if she starts complaining tell her how you put an end to all the weird stuff, and make up worse stuff about what that was.

 

[Molch]

I have an idea, if she starts complaining tell her how you put an end to all the weird stuff, and make up worse stuff about what that was.

except, Oma Molch is a already a veteran of "weird", having raised two critter-loving nerds from eggs.
She's been exposed to every herp imaginable, not to mention my brother's giant tropical moths, which were flapping through our place like so many animated dish rags. :bowl:

 

[mewsie]

But you could say

"yeahhhh, i used to keep three cows in my room... Yknow, for the milk? I started with one, but you know how it is with cows... And I joined this cow keepers forum and ended up with three... But in the end they were just taking up too much space, and one of them started nibbling on the duvet in the night, so i decided i should get something easier, like newts, you see? So even though Newt milk tastes a little strange* they defo won't nibble your duvet"

*also can be used to explain the weird tasting coffee

 

[aeviette]

But you could say

"yeahhhh, i used to keep three cows in my room... Yknow, for the milk? I started with one, but you know how it is with cows... And I joined this cow keepers forum and ended up with three... But in the end they were just taking up too much space, and one of them started nibbling on the duvet in the night, so i decided i should get something easier, like newts, you see? So even though Newt milk tastes a little strange* they defo won't nibble your duvet"

*also can be used to explain the weird tasting coffee

Mewsie, I am absolutely using that one when my mother visits next.

 

[carsona246]

I'd hide the worm farm as best as possible. My gf is pretty lenient with my fish tanks/axoltols, but actually seeing a worm anywhere near food is where she draws the line. I'm not allowed to feed my axolotls anywhere near dinner time.

 

[allegoriest]

I dunno. Oma allegoriest would get mad if I put playdoh in the fridge. (IT CHANGED COLOURS IN COLD. IT NEEDED TO BE THERE.) I can't imagine if I had worms in there. So all you can do is be in fear.

(I totally have the stereotypical ridiculously strict German family, so, yeeeeah.)

Actually, I can't imagine the kind of fear it must be. Cause I get in plenty of trouble with blind relatives. Much less ones that can see.


Solution:

Make wienerschnitzel. That will solve any problem with anyone.
...Unless you burn it I guess. It's an international crime to burn veal.

 

[SludgeMunkey]

I am laughing far too hard aloud to offer any advice.

I feel your pain though. Whenever we have guests, they always want to see the "Creepy Salamander Cave". Invariably, someone always asks why I haven't just expanded the critter collection into the spare bedrooms too.


For some reason this causes my wife, Angelita, to mutter under her breath in the only Spanish she knows...all of it a violation of the rules here on the forums.


"I´m particularly fascinated by the "who knows?" container as such mysterious creatures seem to sprout into existence at random, and only occasionally have an apparent purpose.'

I am glad to see I am not the only one with this problem. There are various tubs and tanks in my critter cave that have all sorts of interesting stuff living in them, most of which I have no idea where they came from or how the got here.

 

[Azhael]

Your wife has the same name as my mother She and i should meet some time, cursing and swearing in spanish is a fine tradition that i thoroughly enjoy, and it´s best done in groups.

About the misterious and purposeless containers i have a hypothesis that consists on other paralel universes in which i have set them up for a clear and entirely justifiable reason, leaking into this one through tiny black holes created everytime a tank is left empty for longer than a week.

 

[aeviette]

About the misterious and purposeless containers i have a hypothesis that consists on other paralel universes in which i have set them up for a clear and entirely justifiable reason, leaking into this one through tiny black holes created everytime a tank is left empty for longer than a week.

The Rift isn't in Cardiff, it's in your house! Someone else watches Torchwood I hope...

 

[Azhael]

xDD Not yet, but give me time...From what i hear, it´s not really my cup of tea. Mind you, i´ll watch anything if it contains a british accent, and when i run out of things to watch i really have no standards, i´ll give anything a try.