Hairnets?

So Izzy came home with a "free" goldfish from school. I would like to know who it is "free" for, becasuse $30 later we now have our very own fish habitat. It is supposed to be her prayer buddy, and how would it look if she went back and said her parents killed her prayer buddy (who is named after an actual person from youth group)? Hi, Angelika, my parents didn't want you and they let you die. Hmmm...doesn't sound quite right...

Maria is stoked to have anything that resembles another pet in the house. She feels however that she should have been the one to get the next pet. When the kids were little I put off their begging for a pet with "You can have your own pet when you are 12". Shooooot, they have long memories and have brought it up no less than 73 times a year ever since then. Isabelle got Annie at age 10 because of extreme circumstances (read: free purebred pet coming our way).

Maria has been working the beg/pester/wish train for the better part of 12 months now even though I have assured her, that her pet really has to come at age 12. We are all FULL UP at the moment. She was not happy about this. THEN, her sister comes home with her very own pet fish (which nobody asked her mom about) and Isabelle now has 2 pets before Maria can even get her first one. This is not looking good. Can we just name some of the birds and squirrels outside or something?

So we have this "free" fish. It is a little shell shocked and not swimming much. Morrie and I are trying to make sure that the cats don't go fishing for lunch. We were discussing ways to cover the opening of the fishbowl for extra protection. Morrie said "We could get some flexible wire mesh and rubberband it around the lip of the fishbowl". I replied "Oh, a hairnet could work too". He came back with "Why don't we think of something even MORE GHETTO and do that??". I still can't stop laughing. Can you think of something more ghetto?