Wife and kids picked me up from my office for an early lunch. Wife brought me a sandwich from Schlotzsky's (which was delicious) and we took the kids to a nice little fenced-in park so they could run off some energy and play for 30-40 mins. The park was fairly busy with other kids, Moms, and a couple Dads.

While I was pushing my 2 year old in the swing I noticed a squirrel on the ground at the base of a tree just past the fence. I pointed out the squirrel to my kid (who loves animals) and she started chatting at it. The squirrel wasn't happy with me approaching the fence so it ran back a couple feet away from us as I walked forward. I then leaned on the fence and attempted to "call" it back to us by squawking some make-shift animal call I made up. (I guess it sounds something like this: "sssk, sssk, sssk, sssk"). It of course didn't work, because I'm a lunatic and some how thought the squirrel would listen to me. Ever the unrelenting and tenacious rodent-whisperer, I then tried do "kissy" sounds at the squirrel. At this point the squirrel had run back up the tree and to my horror I look up to now see a 12 year old girl and her pissed off father staring right at me. They apparently had been walking by on a path that runs along the park at the exact moment I was attempting to seduce the squirrel. They of course saw no squirrel. All they saw was a seemingly pervy grown-yewt man leaning on a fence doing kissy sounds at a little girl. I blanched and said something articulate along the lines of "uhhhhh sorry, there was squirrel. I promise I was trying to call a squirrel". The Dad shook his head slightly and grabbed his daughter by the arm and walked off.

Well, that was fun. Have a "pervy" Thanksgiving everyone. Cheers