Death On The Carpet!!!

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i must have been somewhere around 8 or 10 when i added the new additions to my family. there they were on the back of all the comic books........SEA MONKEYS!!! they looked like such a happy little group.....Papa Sea Monkey standing proudly behind his family. Mama Sea Monkey sitting happily with her blond locks and the little red bow in her hair. and of course the little boy sea monkey and baby girl sea monkey looking on happily. the advertisement promised "OWN A BOWLFULL OF HAPPINESS - Instant Pets" and "So Eager To Please - They Can Even Be Trained"*i had to get me some Sea Monkeys. they finally arrived in a little box, which contained like 4 little packets.....some kind of water treatments, food, and LIVE EGGS!!! so i grabbed me an old mayonnaise jar, i couldn't swing the fancy "sea monkey observation tank" and i played a scientist creating life, mixing the packets in a jar of water. i put the little jar on top of my dresser, and then i waited....and waited....AND WAITED.... and then one day i saw them, movement in the tank, i wondered if the mama sea monkey really had blond hair........which one WAS the mama........they were as big as a grain of sand.......THEY'RE PLANKTON PEOPLE!!! BRINE SHRIMP!!! anyways, i fed my little specks, and watched them zip around their mayonnaise jar until that one fateful day when for whatever reason i used the bottom drawer of my dresser as a step ladder, don't tell me you never did it, and watched in horror as my friendly specks toppled on to the floor. poor little specks......i couldn't even give them a proper burial, how do you do a body recovery of specks lost in carpet. anyways, as a young boy, they quickly faded from memory, and my room smelled like the ocean for a few days. and then i moved on to my next companion.......my Pet Rock. faithful companion until i took him rock climbing and lost him......i sure hope he was taken in by the wild rocks. have you ever bought anything from the back of a comic book.......the $9.99 one man sub, the x-ray specs, or any of the other awesome things only found in comic books??? was it what you expected???