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I practically crawled home from work last night, pulled onto my street and encountered 3 bunny rabbits. We’re over run with rabbits, so that is not all that unusual, but when I looked up I saw the neighbor’s had a giant inflatable unicorn. He was kind of upside down and stuck on his head. It was a surreal scene, pleasant and peaceful, but kind of funny.
So I came into the house and announced, “I just saw 3 bunny rabbits and a pink unicorn.” It seemed like a perfectly reasonable observation, a bit of small talk, but no, no, nothing is ever reasonable at my house.
Immediate rebellion, I kid you not. They promptly declared, “You did not see a literal unicorn.”
My family worries me sometimes. Does anybody know what a “literal unicorn” is? Is there some kind of non metaphorical unicorn I have yet to encounter? To make matters worse, I was told that if I had seen a real unicorn it wouldn’t have been pink. And we know this how?
I was too tired to defend myself and did not clarify or elaborate, I simply went to bed. This morning my hubby gets up, looks out the window and announces, “there’s a giant pink unicorn out there.”
You don’t say?
Of course nobody even questions him. Anytime he says something it’s just taken on face value as it probably should be. I mean, somebody tells me something I’m prone to just say, “Okay. Sounds good. Let’s check it out.” I’m telling you, the older I get the more this kind of thing just drives me nuts. Absolutely everything I say or do is challenged by somebody. Relentlessly. My family is terrible, they are the worse, but it happens everywhere. The other day I asked if anyone knew where the screw driver was. Immediate suspicion and challenge, “Why do you want it?”
I don’t know! Are you honestly going to make me explain how a screwdriver works and what it is for? Is there some kind of screwdriver trouble I can get into that no one has ever told me about?
Are you concerned I am fixing to go stab a giant pink unicorn that isn’t even real?
True story, now you know why I am half crazy all the time. In truth however, I really just wanted to share the good news about the three bunny rabbits and the pink unicorn, with some thankfulness, with some gratitude for an answered prayer. It wasn’t actually the bunnies and the unicorn that set the surreal stage, it was the sharp contrast between what my neighborhood used to look like…… and what it looks like now.
I can breathe again. It’s huge.

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Ha! I love the part about metaphorical unicorns. I actually have no mental grid for that! My wife tells me that I challenge everything she says, too. But I told her that can’t be true and to give me examples to prove it. 🙂
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Ha! Right?
I spend a ridiculous amount of time simply re-affirming reality for people. “No seriously, there really ARE eggs in fridge.” Don’t ask me how I know this, just trust me and go have a look. 🙂
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_Scotland#Flora_and_fauna
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It’s the same at my house so your post gave me a good laugh today😊
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Amen! A merry heart and all that….:)
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My only question is this: were the three rabbits literally real or another metaphor? J.
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Ha! They are real rabbits, Salvageable. Someone must have let some loose and they decided to re-populate the earth?
We did once have one of those giant pet rabbits escape and go running down our road. I can understand someone being skeptical about that, but there really are these giant rabbits in the world, quite terrifying really. I doubted my own self when I first saw one.
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Like the Easter Bunny, Bugs Bunny, and Peter Rabbit? Makes my head hurt to think about it. Imagine the problem poor Elmer Fudd would have. Should he shoot the Easter Bunny?
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I offer the following true story in full awareness that it may compromise my reputation as having a firm hold on reality. I confess, I believe in God, so that has always been just cause for many to already doubt me.
My granddaughter received a stuffed unicorn (because she has expressed her love for them every time she’s with me). It resembles the one pictured in your meme. Regarding it’s authenticity, I was immediately corrected. When I gave it to her, I told her I found a little PINK unicorn. She frowned and replied, ”NO grandpa, it’s a PURPLE unicorn. Everyone knows only PURPLE unicorn are real”.
So, whatever it was that YOU saw, it wasn’t a literal unicorn!
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Everybody knows that real unicorns are purple
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Many years ago when my daughter Mandy was in her early teens she saw a gif of a supposed real unicorn and no matter how many times I told her that God would not put a wobbly horn on a horse she insisted it was real. It took her nearly fifteen years to finally admit I was right. That was a very long awaited win lol.
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You should be glad you were able to see the pink unicorn. If it had been invisible it would have been proof that the atheists are right.
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LOL! Yes. Just the same, no invisible purple unicorn has ever answered my prayers, held my hand, or led me through a real swamp. 🙂
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