The Woman With 2500 Elephants In Her House

So ... how do you sleep when you have 2500 elephants in your house?

My eldest daughter and I enjoy "garage saling". Garage Saling is where you head out early on a weekend morning and cruise the local neighborhood looking for garage sales. One of the things my eldest daughter looks for is stuffed animals. She collects hippopotamuses, then moose, then frogs, then assorted other animals. My youngest daughter collects mostly elephants and some assorted others. Youngest daughter and Mom aren't so fond of garage saling.

So my eldest daughter and I go out garage saling on a Sunday morning and find a lawn sale with a pile of plushies. Of course we have to stop for that one. We get closer and see that the plushies are all elephants. About a dozen of them piled there with no obvious wear and mostly with tags still attached. We pick some of the best out including two we think youngest daughter would like. Then we find another group of elephant plushies lined up on a ledge and some more here and there.

When I comment that "You must collect elephants" to the woman running the sale she responds "These are just some extras. I have over twenty five hundred inside." Since we were standing outside some townhouse apartments ... well, you can envision 2500 elephants inside as well as I. I have a hard time envisioning my daughters room with even 100... We find out the plushies are reasonably priced and go back to grab a couple more interesting ones. When we go back to pay, the woman has wandered off and a man is there now. When I remark "Do you really have 2500 more inside?" he sheepishly tells us that, well, 2500 was the count a couple years ago and many more were added since them. All sizes. His girlfriend started collecting them when she was quite young.

Oh great ... I'm enabling an elephant plushie addiction with my daughters now ... Is there a program for that? Ah well, I can think of many less desirable hobbies. So as long as they (the girls) still fit in their beds...