A Gold Fish Story

When my daughter was about eleven she went to a street fair with her father and came home with a sandwich baggy, held it up for me to see and said, "Look Ma a goldfish!" I said, "That's a goldfish?" In the baggy was a little silver fish.  I put it into a "goldfish bowl" and put it on the bathroom window sill.  I fed it several times a day.  (What do I know?)  But it looked so little, and alone that I went to Petland and bought ten for $1.00 feeder goldfish.  I put them all into the little goldfish bowl and fed them several times a day.  Soon they seemed too big and the bowl looked very crowded so I went to a garage sale and found a twenty gallon tank on a stand.  I went back to Petland and bought some gravel, plants and a filter.  I filled the tank with water and gravel and put the plants in and then put in the eleven goldfish.  Now they looked very little in that big twenty gallon tank.  So I went back to Petland and bought ten more goldfish, little ones also but this time more fancy ones.  I brought them home and put them in the twenty gallon tank with the eleven little feeder fish.  The original little silver goldfish which had been about an inch long when my daughter brought her (yes I said "her") home was now about two inches long and bright orange.  So they were all swimming around happily and I was feeding them several times a day.  Soon, I noticed that they could hardly swim they had gotten  so big and the tank was too small for them.  They could only face front and wiggle from side to side.  And, they were always hungry.  So, I realized that they needed a bigger fish tank.  I went back to Petland and $400 later I had bought a 90 gallon tank with stand, hood and lights and a huge filtration system.  I bought more gravel and plants and filled up the tank and fixed the plants and gravel and put the now twenty-one gold fish that I had in the twenty gallon tank into the 90 gallon tank.  Again, they suddenly looked so small and lost in that big tank.  So again I went back to the pet store and bought more goldfish.  This  time I didn't have to limit myself to small fish, I bought some big fancy ones. 

The big goldfish is the original little silver fish.