Raccoon Encounter!

I know I have mentioned before there's a raccoon that lives in our complex. We've all seen him many times. He lives in the storm drain across from our building. Well the other night while walking the boys I needed to throw something away, as we approached the garbage bin Simon was on the prowl for something to eat. He has learned there's food most commonly found near trash bins. As I went to toss the bag through the cut out on the side of the trash there sat the raccoon. Now mind you it's late at night and it's dark out...keep those two things in mind please as I continue to the next part. My first reaction was to stand there in fear and scream! Cody responded instantly, stepping way up in front of me. Simon was oblivious as he was still on the prowl for something good to eat. The raccoon came out of the trash bin and in a defensive stance it did a sideways scoot out of our way and back to his storm drain.

I felt a little silly to have screamed so much but that thing sure did startle me. It startled me to the point that I was out of breath as if I had been running. Crazy! I'm still slightly embarrassed that I was so afraid of it. I'm glad Cody was on the defensive right away because Simon left me hanging!

Let me say this about raccoons...they aren't cute! Not one bit! In animated shows/movies and also in children's books they are illustrated to be rather adorable. They are freaky looking in my opinion. They also move weird! The way they scoot around reminds me of some of the moves the band NSYNC performed in their music video for the song "Bye, Bye, Bye".