Tuesday, March 18, 2008

maybe a little too friendly

Satoshi and I were walking around campus the other day when we saw a squirrel a few yards away. Satoshi got out his camera to take a picture (squirrels are rare in Japan). As soon as he pulled it out of his pocket, the squirrel looked up. We stepped a little closer. So did the squirrel. We stopped. It kept coming. It came all the way up to a mere inches from Satoshi's shoe. I thought it was gonna climb up his leg or something.

Then I guess it realized we weren't going to feed it and it ran away. But I have never had a squirrel, even one most likely raised on handouts from students, come so close of its own volition. Crazy rodent.

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