cognizant

I work in an area with about 3 different shopping plazas, so on my lunch breaks I go to a different store each day. Well today just happened to be the day I go to the petstore. I walked in the door and as I passed the betta shelves I saw a red and white blur out of the corner of my eye. I turned around, went back to the shelves, and began pushing the cups to the sides until I uncovered a white and red betta, darting back and forth across his cup, flaring at everything in sight. There was a betta, he flared. A fly came by, he flared. I picked him up, he flared.

He was so active I knew immediately that I had to have him or I would just die. The problem was that it was my lunch break. I still had to go back to work for another 3 1/2 hours. So, I asked one of the workers if I could borrow her sharpie, I put little stars all over the cover of the cup, and hid him all the way in the back in the middle of all the bettas.

I went back to work. I waited. I fidgeted. It was the longest afternoon of my life.

At 5pm I made a beeline for the exit that now I was probably a big blur that only partially resembled a human being. I sped all the way to the petstore only slightly letting up on the gas pedal as I went mach 1 passed a police car. As I got closer my heart began to beat faster. What if the new love of my life had been taken by someone else? Would I ever love again?

I parked. I achieved the new world record for the car door to pet store door dash. I pushed all the cups away and there he was, safe and sound and waiting for me.

I heaved such a sigh of relief.

Sorry the picture is fuzzy but the little guy just won't stay still!

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Alessa

Hes so pretty! congrats on the new love

Gilbert

Congratulations, what a nice story.

Butterfly

Great catch!!
carol

MousePotato

Congratulations on your new little beauty! Great story, too!

Martinismommy

It is such a wonderful feeling when you find the "right one" He is beautiful.....Congratulations!

Lucy

Great looking boy, congratulations.

Bede

He's great! Congrats!

jdhef

Congrats. He's a beauty.

I think if I were you I would have just bought him at luch and brought him to work for the rest of the day. He was going to be in the cup until you got home from work anyway and the afternoon wouldn't have gone by so slowly.

MousePotato

<laugh> That's actually what I was thinking, too! I would have just set him up next to my monitor. Then I thought maybe she doesn't have the kind of job where one can keep a betta on one's desk.

I've kept bags of live plants on my desk all afternoon and even put Bio Spira in the company refrigerator (that went over well), but then I'm in I.T. and they expect me to do weird things like that. Half of our department had fish tanks at one point! My manager brought his puppy one morning when he had an early vet appointment. No one said a word (and the puppy even "christened" the carpet).

Red1313

Haha great story and gorgeous new boy.

shellbell4ever

I just love that story and he's really quite Handsome welcome Eros

pamd

Eros! How's your new home, how's your girlfriend? Love your story and you are a beautiful boy!

Darlene

He is very pretty. I love the story of how you got him also. Congratulations

Allie

Aww he is so cute. He looks like my Mr. Peach RIP sort of.

welshalien

Eros is so handsome! Congratulations to you both!

Kelly

Phinny12

OMG! He looks almost like Sparkle...he lured me in in the same way! I thouht he was white with red pectoral (sp?) fins ,but after he was home a while he became very colorful in a pastel kinda way..he has that teal color in his tail too and his body is pink...They are so cute, Eros & Sparkle!

cognizant

Thanks for all of the wonderful comments!