The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

I am the most gullible person...ever.  Except when it comes to money and finances.  If we're talking about the completely outrageous, though, I will probably believe it, if you present it in a way that appeals to me. A tactic my loving fiancee uses quite frequently when trying to get a laugh.  So, I pretty much stopped believing anything he tells me about anything that seems even slightly outlandish.  This led me to not even accept the fact that narwhals actually existed when he told me about them.



Look at that thing.  It's a dolphin/walrus/unicorn.  How was I to know?  I still have my doubts.

Today, I was fooled again.  I found a website advertising tiny giraffes for sale from somewhere in Russia.  Finding this site was vaguely reminiscent of a time when I was convinced miniature pigs really existed (Royal dandies...there are plenty for sale, but they get a LOT bigger than advertised.  This is not exactly considered a hoax like the giraffe thing).  I somehow got Tyler to agree to getting one once we moved in together.  Then I found out they didn't actually stay that small.  In any case, because of my bitter past with miniature animals, I knew these giraffes couldn't possible stay small, but the live feed of a giraffe was what got me.  I was really excited to be able to watch a giraffe going about his day.  Until my friends assured me this was a spoof, and not a live feed.  I got so excited initially about watching the giraffe, I neglected to actually look around the site and see how ridiculous it actually was.



How embarrassing.

But, you know, if it was real, I would totally want one.  Or I'd at least check the feed at LEAST once a day.  I would also name the giraffe on the feed.  His name would be Mr Donaldson.  Mr Arthur Donaldson, if you knew him well.