Merging Nature with Tortilla

So I’m walking back to my apartment from lab when I hear a small nose in the grass next to me…

Click-click……click-click……crunch-munch…

I stop in my tracks, look down, and what do I see but a little brown squirrel with glassy eyes who’s sitting on his haunches and staring right at me.  However, not only is he staring at me, but he’s also munching a delicious tortilla chip clutched in his paws…and barely making a dent in the snack to boot.  

Now even though I hadn’t had a proper meal yet and was hungry, I let the squirrel keep his treat.  After staring him down and wishing I had a camera with which to document this funny image, he bounded off with his mass-produced yum-yum.  

I can picture it now.  The squirrel bounced off to some shady spot and got full from the chip after two more squirrel bites.  Then, thinking that the chip was just some sort of funny shaped nut, he went to his nut burying area to bury the 99% of the tortilla he couldn’t finish.  Unfortunately, in true squirrel form, he’ll forget where he buried the tortilla chip for later consumption.  Therefore, in the next year or so, somewhere on the University of Minnesota campus you’ll find a tortilla tree sapling struggling to make its way in the world.

And in its sage years it will bear delicious, corn-based fruits for man and squirrel alike.

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Is it bad that I’m dedicating a whole post to fanatical conjectures based on a chance encounter with a squirrel munching a tortilla chip?