TLTP #48

I am very fond of lychees :) They come in such preposterously deceptive packaging which peels off far easier than your eyes suspect and that's just the beginning of their spooky deliciousness :)  Another fruit I like a lot and that also originated in China (I think) are loquats, although I haven't seen any for ages :/

They were the inspiration for the daring Loquat Heist of 1971. A brief foray into the dark world of premeditated crime involving a sister, my me, a dining room chair and someone else's tree. 

Its failure must have been almost as spectacular to watch as the chairback was mysterious on its approach across the bush to the foot of their tree.

_{...because everything, we thought, had been going very well. It had been my job to use the chair to gain entry to the delectable area while she then climbed onto it so I could pass her down a loquat for her and a loquat for me and one for We-wish (just in case baby cheetahs liked loquats, although we had had doubts on that) and it really should have been plain sailing from there on out because I was in the process of leaving the tree, she was already in position to pick up her bit of the chair (once a redistribution of loquats had occurred) and as I landed on it, hands outstretched to gather them, frankly... she went berserk.}

_{We'd both gone berserk on occasions in the past by straying into columns of army ants and whatnot, so I think I still assumed all was not lost. I didn't know someone had been taking a slow stroll towards the crime scene and that she'd just noticed we'd been noticed.}

_{All I knew was that she'd suddenly flung them in the air where they could rain down on me and grabbed the chair expecting I'd performed a miracle and was not only in the right position but also in the right frame of mind to grab my bit, by which time I was trying to by leaping from it, which then wasn't there any more for me to grab because it had just toppled over behind me and on top of her. I think the stress at that point must have got too much for her because no sooner had I tripped over in solidarity as twins often do, she literally was running away. There's something about being out in the African bush and seeing someone running away faster than you'd perhaps ever seen them run, that makes you decide that running away may be by far the most expedient approach to take in that particular set of circumstances too, so I joined her.}

And the lesson was, to never leave a dining chair behind. And I haven't since ;)

@mikey:

They also run around while they're wheeeeking too :) With the right noise stimulus, you can also make them DRRRRRRRRRRR where they tend to stay still and sort of, vibrate, with occasional short vertical take-offs in between each. A bunch of keys worked for that with ours :) A friend's responded to an eggwhisk.