Back in 2015, I went over to a classmateās house for group project work late in the fall, and in the middle of working on the presentation, offered to grab sodas for people but they were out of pepsi and Andrew whose house we were at said āOh, thereās more in the basement fridge.ā
So I go down to the basement, which is well-lit and finished and indeed there are more pepsi but also in the fridge is a massive tortise. This animal was the dimensions of a desktop computer and probably outweighed a labrador. Itās not moving, and is set in the middle of a plastic tray so itās apparently supposed to be there. I go back upstairs.
āHey Andrew.ā I say, nonchalantly. āSo is the tortise in the fridge down there for soup or what?ā
āThe what?ā says the other member of the group project. I donāt remember her name, just that she always wore her hair in pigtails with butterfly clips that were based on real butterflies and she had at least a dozen species.
āOh! No, thatās Andrew Too.ā he says. āHis species hibernates so he stays in the fridge for the holidays.ā
āYou named your tortise after you?ā I ask.
āNo, uh- Well, my grandfather got him in Egypt or somewhere while he was on leave during the war and He was named Andrew, so he thought it would be funny to name him āAndrew Tooā.
ā¦Then Mom named me after him so Gandpa left me Andrew Too in his will. Heās pretty cool when heās awake. Lets us dress him up for summer holidays, doesnāt bark.ā
āOh!ā Said Butterflies. āMy dad served in the Gulf War too! What unit was he in?ā
āOh no, Grandpa was with the Royal Air Force in World War Two. Andrew Too is going to be 70 this year! Weāre going to make him a carrot cake!ā
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