Back in 2015, I went over to a classmateâs 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 âOh, thereâs more in the basement fridge.â
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. Itâs not moving, and is set in the middle of a plastic tray so itâs apparently supposed to be there. I go back upstairs.
âHey Andrew.â I say, nonchalantly. âSo is the tortise in the fridge down there for soup or what?â
âThe what?â says the other member of the group project. I donât 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.
âOh! No, thatâs Andrew Too.â he says. âHis species hibernates so he stays in the fridge for the holidays.â
âYou named your tortise after you?â I ask.
âNo, 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 âAndrew Tooâ.
âŠThen Mom named me after him so Gandpa left me Andrew Too in his will. Heâs pretty cool when heâs awake. Lets us dress him up for summer holidays, doesnât bark.â
âOh!â Said Butterflies. âMy dad served in the Gulf War too! What unit was he in?â
âOh no, Grandpa was with the Royal Air Force in World War Two. Andrew Too is going to be 70 this year! Weâre going to make him a carrot cake!â
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