A Grimms Tale - The pigs and the mysterious rubber-band

Tonight we saw Brothers Grimm, reminded me of a real life strange encounter which occurred to yours truly…

It was a night in the midst of summer, a chokingly hot, humid and still night. The Claret during dinner was exceptional; I had slightly too much and went to bed with the room spinning around me. Gradually, I fell into a fitful sleep, punctuated by horrible nightmares.

There was a particularly vivid dream: I was working hard at my desk, attempting to revive a broken force transducer. It was late at night on a Saturday, the entire laboratory was deserted. I heard the usual complaints of Nutty indicating that they demand to be fed this instant. Like a faithful servant I went over to refill the hay buckets for them. And it happened! Missy ran up my arm, went gnawing for my jugular, the loquacious Nutty was cheering her on with her dreadful screech, blood shot out of my neck like a geyser. At this point, I woke up drenched in sweat!

I was terribly shaken by this horrible vision of the vicious furball. My throat was parched and numb, and I got up to get a drink of water. And that was when I found it! A rubber-band has mysteriously appeared in my mouth…

Till this day, I keep this rubber-band in my pantry to tie up unfinished bags of potato chips and as a reminder of this unusual occurrence on that fateful night.

I stress again, that this is a true story, worthy to be an excerpt from Jacob Grimm’s collection.