Is it strange to feel guilty about accidentally killing a houseplant?

[Mutley]

:cry:

[billyskank]

1. Unusually sensitive, perhaps

Awwwww :hug:

[Mutley]

4. I've been told I can be a bit sensitive.

*pout*

:hug:

[ZombieNixon]

2. I think if I did that right now...

I'd dissolve into a hysteria of laughter and sobbing, but I was strange to begin with. :crazy:

[Mutley]

6. I hope you don't have any houseplants then.

:D

[ZombieNixon]

8. Nope. No green leafy things in this room.

:smoke: ;)

[Mutley]

12. Not living at least, I gather.

:evilgrin:

[ZombieNixon]

14. Not in my room.

My suitemates' room, on the other hand...:smoke: ;)

[Mutley]

15. ...

:spank:

:7

[ZombieNixon]

16. What? I don't partake.

Except on the rare occasions when I need to use the bathroom just after they've reeked up in there. :hide:

I do alcohol, nothing else. :D

[Mutley]

17. I gave up partaking a long time ago.

But still...

:spank:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Why should we believe you when you say it was an accident?

:tinfoilhat:

[Mutley]

7. It was an accident! I swear!

:P

[reyd reid reed]

5. Easy solution to that...

Silk.

I can grow damned near anything Outside...can't grow shit indoors. Never have been able to.

Avoid the guilt...go outside and plant a garden.

[Mutley]

10. I live in an apartment.

But I've always thought it would be great fun to have a garden when I get a house... one of these years.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. If it is

just call me strange.

:hug:

All life has value. Except Freepers. :evilgrin:

[Mutley]

11. Oh, even Freepers' lives have value.

Doesn't mean I enjoy admitting it. :P

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Only to other Freepers

I suppose some of 'em can actually feel something vaguely resembling "love" — maybe kinda like "I love him because he doesn't beat me very often."

[reyd reid reed]

13. Hi, Strange

Sorry...and feel free to thwack me now.

I've been hanging around nine-year-olds for too long.













:hide:

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Hell of a thing to admit

in a public forum.

:spank:

[reyd reid reed]

42. I thought

it was rather tame and discreet...if that's the Worst thing I ever admit in a public forum, I'm ahead of the game.

Now...over to the right just a teeeeeeeeny bit if you don't mind...the bruise, y'know....

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. What kind of plant?

:shrug:

[Mutley]

21. A daylily.

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. Then no, it's not strange.

I mean an Oxalis or a Sansevieria? Fuck them. But daylilies are pretty.

I'm sorry for your loss. :hug:

[Mutley]

23. I love daylilies. And thank you.

:hug:

[merh]

24. Did you play too many games of "don't step on a crack" game?

You are truly a sensitive soul, mutley_r_us. :hug:

No need to feel guilty about accidently killing your houseplant.

But, if you purposely kill it, then may you burn in hell :evilgrin:

You are a special soul, you make the heavens smile because you care so much. :hug:

:loveya:

[Mutley]

28. Thank you, merh.

You're so sweet. :loveya:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I would feel guilty if it was one of mine.

I've become very attached to them...especially the spider plant that my son started from a baby in Kindergarten.

I'm sorry for your loss. :hug:

[Mutley]

29. I would definately be attached to a plant like that spider plant.

This was a daylily, one of my favorite flowers. Thanks! :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

26. I hate it when I do that!

:cry:
These guys are delicate but I love them.

[Mutley]

30. What type is that?

Is it a coleus? I have one of those too, and it's been hanging in there pretty well. I'm kind of a plant novice, but I do try to keep them alive. :cry:

[In_The_Wind]

34. They are Rex Begonias.

[Mutley]

37. Wow! They're beautiful!

[LeftyMom]

27. Nope, plants feel pain after all.

I learned that on one of the veg flamewars here at DU. :rofl:

[Mutley]

31. I'm sorry I missed that one.

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

32. Oh, it'll pop up again.

And it's funny because the people who care so much about the poor tortured soybeans never seem to have noticed or cared that animals feel pain.

[Mutley]

38. Animals feel pain. Plants feel pain.

Can't win. Can't eat anything at all. :cry:

:D

[Nikia]

43. You can eat fruit that has fallen off the tree

Perhaps you can even pick it when it is close. I have heard that some people actually do that in that they don't hurt any living creature.
I don't know if one can be healthy doing that or not. I am not sure what is all considered fruit for their purposes. Things like oranges and apples are obviously fruits. Tree nuts might be fruits for their purposes. I don't know if beans are "fruits" though if they are picked rather than ripped out by farm machinery.

[Mutley]

44. I don't see how you could survive for long on fruit alone.

:shrug:

[Nikia]

54. I found a website

http://www.fruitarian.com/

[Mutley]

55. They seem a little nutty.

http://www.fruitarian.com/ao/WhatIsFruitarianism.htm

[Nikia]

56. Very punny

:-)

[Mutley]

57. Ha! I did not do that on purpose.

:P

[LeftyMom]

45. I think that means it's time to go breatharian

Well it's dinnertime, off to go photosynthesize. :hi:

[Mutley]

46. Hard to do that when the sun is down.

:D

[Mutley]

47. Nevermind. You still have sunlight.

[Haole Girl]

33. No, not to me. But, I feel guilty if my cat doesn't act happy. n/t

[Mutley]

39. Oh I definately feel guilty if my dog is sad.

[begin_within]

35. At one point did you first see the houseplant. How fast were you going.

[Mutley]

40. I was driving the speed limit.

I swear I was! You never clocked me, officer!

[Nikia]

36. I mourned the death of my cactus

I found him on the roof of my college dormitory. I bought a small pot for him and put him by my window. He kept on growing and I kept on repotting. He increased to at least three times the size that he was when I found him. I had him for 4 years when I tried to repot him for the last time. He somehow broke. Evidently, he hadn't been too healthy and that spot and had perhaps been dying already, but it really upset me.
My husband has wanted to know if I want to get a plant again. I refuse though. In our current place, which is where my cactus died, we have no good windows for putting houseplants near. Living in Wisconsin, they cannot stay outside most of the year. I am afraid if I got another plant, I would have a hard time keeping it alive and it would meet the same fate as my poor little cactus.

[Mutley]

41. Aww. Sounds like your cactus was very special to you.

:hug:

[fleabert]

48. happens to me all the time.

:hug:

[Mutley]

49. Thank you.

:hug:

[crispini]

50. No. I do.

But just try again. My gardening aunt says that you don't really know how to raise a plant until you've killed it a few times. :D

[Mutley]

52. A few times!

I don't think I could take killing another one. :cry:

[NNadir]

51. Yes, it is extremely strange.

Think of it as lettuce.

[Mutley]

53. But. But.

I never raised lettuce from seedhood.

[libodem]

58. Nah, I gave up on them

all my efforts go in to the garden outside, I just have lots better luck. All my house plants are silk. Just destroyed to many innocent lives and plants are better off without me tending them. If I got depressed...they had to suffer for it. Poor things. Low energy for me -no water for them. Hummm maybe I did feel guilty...change that answer to... Yeah. Sometimes I'm too blond for my own good.