Dumping Them Out: The Zoo
Welcome back to another episode of Dumping Them Out. This week's episode is brought to you by The Columbus Zoo. I went to the zoo today. I love the zoo. The Columbus Zoo is indisputably one of the zoo's of Americas. They've got all the animals. Except for hippopotamus and panther. If they had hippopotamus and panther, they'd have it all. But still, there's nothing like spending 5 hours walking around looking at animals as you go through the repeated thought cycle of
Quick Speed Rankings of Animals That Made Me The Saddest to See at Zoo:
5. Javan (Extinct) - Not sure what Javan was, but I thought this was kinda dark. A little ominous even.
4. Manatees - Although quite adorable to watch them eat lettuce
3. Bald Eagle - Seeing a big giant bald eagle sitting it in the top of a tree with a net over his head seemed especially unnatural.
2. Moose - Moose are my favorite animal. I've been drawing moose since I was young. It made me way too sad to see a solo moose laying there in the hot sun. Didn't even have it in me to snag a picture. Just wanted to leave the poor guy be.
1. This sad bear in particular - #FreeBaloo
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Parents at the zoo really let their guards down in the, "Letting their children do whatever the hell they want" department. I saw exceptionally more loose crawling babies than I had anticipated. There's also this thing that apparently all kids at the zoo do, and not a single parent realizes how annoying it is. Obviously, it's fine if a kid is going to stand up against the glass. They're kids. Adults can see over them. Except for at The Columbus Zoo, a whole bunch of the animal exhibits are set up with a stoop right in front of the glass. Which all the kids stand on, making it so adults can NOT see over them whatsoever.
And you can never really get in there to the front, because there are kids just constantly rotating in and out. If there's a cool animal up against the glass, you're pretty much just not going to see that animal. It would be one thing if the kids couldn't see over the stoop, or if the animals were like, below the stoop or something. But as you can see in my picture, the top of the stoop is level with the ground the animal is on. The kids aren't gaining anything from standing on the stoop. The stoop is not meant to be stood on. I'm pretty sure it's expressly meant to act as a buffer between people and the glass. It really made my day as a grown adult zoo goer, very very very mildly less enjoyable.
I apologize for the tardiness of this blog. Considering it's Labor Day weekend, I thought about putting this off until tomorrow. But I'm never quite sure if we're supposed to get Labor Day off at Barstool. I think technically we do. Like I bet somewhere in my email is a list of holiday's we get off, and Labor Day is on there. But Labor Day is always on the heels of the start of football. Which makes me think we should probably be working. You could argue it's one of the most important Mondays of the year. Is Pardon My Take dropping an episode tomorrow? Are they doing The Yak? I have no idea. But regardless, in honor of non-communist labor, I will be doing a college football themed Dumping Them Out tomorrow as well.