I saw my first Alligator yesterday. I was in a car, so it wouldn't have been scary except that it was in the pond that we walk by every night on our way to the bus. Yikes! Now we are going to ask for rides to the bus stop!!!

At work we were talking about who could take on the alligator and who we would throw at it so the rest of us could escape and one of my fellow cast members said that she could see me taking on a gator. She pictured me attacking it like Ralphie beating up the bully boy with the yellow eyes in "A Christmas Story," which made us all laugh hysterically.

"Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!"