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My Pet Octopus Has Stolen My Identity

Bev Potter
3 min readFeb 20, 2022
Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash

[JANUARY 12, 4:24 P.M.]

Hey Facebook Fam!

Big news! I got a pet octopus!!!!! I KNOW, RIGHT?? Crazy! It’s such a “me” thing to do, like that time I got a tattoo from a guy I met in the alley next to the liquor store. Thank God for antibiotics.

So my octopus’s name is Squishy McSquishface and I had to convert my entire living room into a saltwater fish tank so he’d have plenty of room to… swim, I guess? I don’t actually know that much about octopuses. I think they eat fish.

I have some Gorton’s fish sticks in the freezer. That’ll have to do until I get this all figured out.

I know what you’re thinking — how is this even legal? Well, the guy I bought Squish from assured me that octopuses aren’t endangered or anything and it’s not like I’m buying a lion or an alligator or something. An octopus isn’t going to break free and eat people. Probably.

I’M KIDDING!! Squish is definitely not going to eat anybody. He’s just a squishy ol’ pile of squishiness.

Anyway, the guy gave me a license for Squish, so it’s totally legit. The license looks kind of like an Uno card with an octopus sticker on it, but I’m sure it’s fine.

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Bev Potter
Bev Potter

Written by Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com

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