Gramen, Incrementum, Insania
May 4th, 2009Has anybody else ever noticed, or experienced, the insane growth speed of grass?
I know, it never really occurs to most people to watch their grass grow. It’s even sometimes used as an analogy for boredom, but in some very rare cases, I’ve found it can be quite an adventure.
So, my lawn measured 17 inches tall in some places on wednesday. The average height was closer to 10 inches, though. Either way, this was obviously getting out of hand, so I decided to cut it.
After having mowed it to the ground, I quickly cleaned up and went on with my life, like the normal kind of guy I try hard to pretend to almost be.
By the time friday rolled around I couldn’t help but notice that my grass was, once again, incredibly tall. My parents would be getting notice’s from the city before long. So I had to have some kind of explination.
The speed of growth went beyond the, I assumed, boundaries of nature.
For two days I struggled, saturday had been fruitless. Sunday, on the other hand, proved nearly disasterous. Not so much of another hand, I guess.
I had done everything I could think of, I tested the soil for growth hormones. I had read about those being injected into american food, and that had made many of those people grow insanely fast. No luck there. I checked to see if evolutionary scientists had any information about exceeding growth rates. No luck there, I just got a lecture about the earbone of a specific species of rat.
Among other things, I tried to develope a testing method to find out if a improbability drive was running under my lawn, or something. For this I used an electromagnetic field detector. That always seemed to work in the X-files.
To my suprise, I found a very large electromagnectic field.
To my greater suprise, it moo’d at me.
You would think that would’ve been a first hint, but due to a mild anxiety about my own sanity, I didn’t trust my own ears.
I brought out my handy ghost-busters detectomatic. Hadn’t used that since I was a kid, so I replaced the batteries and turned it on. My sanity was, for now, not in absolute danger. A herd of ghost cows were in my lawn.
A herd of ghost cows was in my lawn, and I was talking about my sanity not being in danger?
…Nevermind that, I moo’d at a few of them, trying to speak. They moo’d back, now I just needed to learn cow.
I was unlucky enough to see one of them excrete something, it was a glowing pile of ghost-cow dung. The grass around that spot grew up almost immediately. My next thought was about getting ghost-killing bullets, but I think those were outlawed when clinton was in office. Hillary wouldn’t have her kin slaughtered.
So what could I do about this? Well, I knew that ghosts were usually somehow attached to their bodies. I quickly got out my handy ghost-busters body-detector, and thanked myself for being such a nerd. Before I knew it I had found a body. Before I recognized I didn’t know it, I had found a dozen bodies.
By the end of the day, I had dug around long enough to have found, excavated, and removed countless cow corpses. My electromagnetic field detector had showed a decline in intensity for each body removed.
I wished I could drop all the bodies on the white house, but with all the corpses already in Washington I figured it would be redundant.
I stood on my deck, looking over my now cleansed lawn. I had dug the entire lawn up, just to make sure I didn’t miss any bodies. Didn’t want those cow-ghosts repopulating themselves. I certainly wouldn’t have to deal with the grass growing too fast anymore.
Pride was once a human inhibition, now it’s my natural inclination. But I deserve it, for being so awesome.
The funny thing is, Occam’s razor actually pointed at an improbability drive as the simpler answer…