(Ele)Civil Disobedience

It's not like you were going out of your way to help the worms. Because if you were, that would be a wee bit strange in my book. Though now that I think about it, the spine might be broken on my book. As for knowing when I'm acting a bit crazy or strange, that's a bit tougher. Normal and strange tend to blur together for me. One day I'll get the dosage right.Don't ever change, you stay your strange/crazy pirate loving self. Everyone is just jealous of you anyway.Jason R.

I'm a nutter anyway, so asking me if something is normal is pointless. I know exactly what you've felt because I've been there, done that before. I am as normal as a three-dollar bill.

Excellent. Another human being who truly has compassion. Although I cannot stand the feeling of the worms wiggling, due to hyper sensitivity, I've done it when I had gloves. My favorite shocker, which, like your shocker, was perfectly logical to me, was in a rest area in central Oregon.In the urinal, one of those which go right down to the floor, was a salamander. Actually, a Pacific pink newt. It couldn't get out, no way, no how, and guys were just pissing on it. Well, I flushed it, then reached right in with my bare hand and escorted it to safety outside in some thick bushes. Then I came back in and finished my business. The shocked looks on guys' faces was a puzzle to me. I only did what is 'right'.

Good on both of you! I'd probably have done the same (had I thought of it). Scorpions I'd leave alone as they get kinda annoyed.

I've thought of rescuing worms, too, though I've never done it. It's not weird -- unusual and exceptional, but not weird.You were doing it for the right reasons -- what other people think about it is irrelevant.