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What if a tiger jumps into my back garden

  • 05-06-2012 09:34PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭


    So, I was sitting out in the back a while ago. Reading my Kindle and enjoying the long evenings. When suddenly, in the middle of a paragraph, I thought, what if a tiger jumps into my back garden. I have no idea where this thought came from, but I spent the next five minutes or so going through what might happen.

    I've no idea if I could get the back door open in time to escape into the house, but let's say I could. If I rang the guards, they'd never believe me, and it could take ages to convince them to come out. And what if the tiger broke through a window? I'd have to run out the front door and close it behind me and then race up to the local Centra. But they wouldn't believe me either until the tiger arrived and, by then, it would be too late to close the doors against it. So, I'd be trapped in Centra with a tiger, and you just know it would go for me first.

    Totally ruined my peace sitting outside and I kept thinking about it until I gave up and came back in. I know it's probably not going to happen, but every time I tried to go back to reading, my mind would wander to the tiger again.

    This happens to me all the time. I'll be wandering across a bridge and suddenly will think, what if this falls down. Or along the Liffey listening to the radio until I think, what if somebody throws me over the wall.

    Obviously I'm completely batshit crazy, and, so far, I've never been attacked by a tiger, fallen through a bridge or been thrown into the Liffey, so there's no basis for my fears.

    Just wondering if anybody else gets these random thoughts. They're not always negative either. I'll get good ones too like what if I find a winning Lotto ticket or a friendly puppy and get to bring it back to a loving owner and then spend some time going through the different things that could happen.

    Anyone else???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I prefer just normal books to kindles tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cat lady?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    If your that distracted in thought, the book mustn't be that good! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Make yourself look big and slowly back your way to the back door.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    No kidding, but I dreamt about a tiger in my back garden last night. Weird.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭dillo2k10


    xoxyx wrote: »
    So, I was sitting out in the back a while ago. Reading my Kindle and enjoying the long evenings. When suddenly, in the middle of a paragraph, I thought, what if a tiger jumps into my back garden. I have no idea where this thought came from, but I spent the next five minutes or so going through what might happen.

    I've no idea if I could get the back door open in time to escape into the house, but let's say I could. If I rang the guards, they'd never believe me, and it could take ages to convince them to come out. And what if the tiger broke through a window? I'd have to run out the front door and close it behind me and then race up to the local Centra. But they wouldn't believe me either until the tiger arrived and, by then, it would be too late to close the doors against it. So, I'd be trapped in Centra with a tiger, and you just know it would go for me first.

    Totally ruined my peace sitting outside and I kept thinking about it until I gave up and came back in. I know it's probably not going to happen, but every time I tried to go back to reading, my mind would wander to the tiger again.

    This happens to me all the time. I'll be wandering across a bridge and suddenly will think, what if this falls down. Or along the Liffey listening to the radio until I think, what if somebody throws me over the wall.

    Obviously I'm completely batshit crazy, and, so far, I've never been attacked by a tiger, fallen through a bridge or been thrown into the Liffey, so there's no basis for my fears.

    Just wondering if anybody else gets these random thoughts. They're not always negative either. I'll get good ones too like what if I find a winning Lotto ticket or a friendly puppy and get to bring it back to a loving owner and then spend some time going through the different things that could happen.

    Anyone else???

    Yea I get completely random thoughts and go through in my mind what could possibly happen. I thought it was just me, but clearly not :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Just get your pet lion to fight it. Simples.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    xoxyx wrote: »
    I've no idea if I could get the back door open in time to escape into the house...
    You couldn't - so don't worry about the rest of the scenario you've detailed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    Just get your pet lion to fight it. Simples.

    Or escape on your unicorn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    According to various documentaries I've seen, waving a chair at them works well.

    Chairs.. the natural enemy of large cats.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    Write a book about it!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    Just give him his golf ball back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Wait, You don't have a tiger net over your garden?

    Okay don't panic, i have a rock i can sell you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    I am a licensed psychologist and I postulate that there is only one way to conquer you're debilitating fear of tigers. You must go to Dublin Zoo and get into the cage. You then have to stare them down. I advise my patients to kick them up the arse to get attention. This treatment is 100% successful as not one of my patients has come back to complain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    I find that smoking marijuana makes me overthink about tigers and things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    He'd just be looking for his golf ball


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    mattjack wrote: »
    Or escape on your unicorn.

    Totally beyond the realm of reality. Who has a pet unicorn? They are illegal to have as a pet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    phasers wrote: »
    Wait, You don't have a tiger net over your garden?

    You know I don't think she does, how can she sit out there without the TigNet 3000?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭leggo


    Pick up a rake and sing dramatic music under your breath as you compete in an impromptu duel to the death. (I'm humming the perfect dramatic music right now as I type this, it's a shame you can't hear as it will really make the moment that bit more exciting if/when it happens)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    No chance of sitting in the garden here Op it's pissing rain all day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    Totally beyond the realm of reality. Who has a pet unicorn? They are illegal to have as a pet.

    So is Shergar but....... I've said too much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    He'd stare you out and probably be quite curious but he wouldn't necessarily attack you, don't show fear to big cats they can be manipulated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    I take a tiger repellant pill every morning, will PM you my chemist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    I worry about kindle batteries exploding all the time, but you shouldn't worry about that while reading on your kindle! just get a shotgun and enjoy the book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    But in all seriousness get yourself a good dog. I haven't seen one tiger even try to enter my back garden while the dog was there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    A lady tiger..:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    Totally beyond the realm of reality. Who has a pet unicorn? They are illegal to have as a pet.

    Pet ? its my mode of transport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭ollie1


    I remember years ago a tiger escaped from Booterstown circus and got on the train tracks :eek:

    So always be prepared for a tiger attack :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    That's highly unlikely to happen, as far as I know they were banished off the island by St. Patrick, along with the snakes and unicorns.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    Ficheall wrote: »
    You couldn't - so don't worry about the rest of the scenario you've detailed.

    Yeah, but if I can't survive in my own makey-upey reality, that doesn't say much for my self esteem.
    According to various documentaries I've seen, waving a chair at them works well.

    Chairs.. the natural enemy of large cats.

    I have several chairs. :)
    Biggins wrote: »
    If your that distracted in thought, the book mustn't be that good! :D

    Nah - it's actually very good. Hannibal Rising. Just finished it - would recommend.
    phasers wrote: »
    Wait, You don't have a tiger net over your garden?

    Okay don't panic, i have a rock i can sell you.

    Lisa Phasers. I want to buy your rock.
    I prefer just normal books to kindles tbh.

    Take that back right now!!!!!
    dlofnep wrote: »
    No kidding, but I dreamt about a tiger in my back garden last night. Weird.

    Cool. We're random twins!!
    dillo2k10 wrote: »
    Yea I get completely random thoughts and go through in my mind what could possibly happen. I thought it was just me, but clearly not :)

    That's what I wanted to hear. Not just that I'm bonkers.
    crosstownk wrote: »
    I find that smoking marijuana makes me overthink about tigers and things.

    No weed. My relaxed self is very similar to that of stoners, so even a little bit of green puts me on Mars.
    leggo wrote: »
    Pick up a rake and sing dramatic music under your breath as you compete in an impromptu duel to the death. (I'm humming the perfect dramatic music right now as I type this, it's a shame you can't hear as it will really make the moment that bit more exciting if/when it happens)

    I can't imagine any suitable music. Could you do a sound recording and post it?
    He'd stare you out and probably be quite curious but he wouldn't necessarily attack you, don't show fear to big cats they can be manipulated.

    I don't know. I think my first reaction would be to freeze, so I wouldn't be very scary to him. Depends if he's hungry / pissed off I suppose. Lots of cats in the neighbourhood, so he mightn't be hungry, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of him eating all the cats that I feed every day. Although, I feed them chicken, so I guess it's a circle of life kind of thing really.
    Joe10000 wrote: »
    I take a tiger repellant pill every morning, will PM you my chemist.

    Any anti-bridge-falling-through pills?
    I worry about kindle batteries exploding all the time, but you shouldn't worry about that while reading on your kindle! just get a shotgun and enjoy the book.

    Don't do that. I love my Kindle - don't have me worrying about exploded hands. :(


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