The Story of the biggest (biggest that I have ever seen)

Raccoon...

I was out all day..oh it was at a crop and I had a left over BBQ beef wrap..so what does my husband always say...food goes here. I have to say I have never had a sandwich this good. So I know my husband would love it. It was so large too..hence I couldn't eat it all.

So go to leave the scrapbook store and of course I forgot it..so I turned around and went back in and got it.

Now it is a summer day or evening..I get home it is just before 9pm still light out too..Mason is in the drive way and I present him with the sandwich. I tell him about it how good it is..etc..he is turning on the bbq at this point because he is cooking steak and corn on the cob..I said fine eat it later..he said no I will try it now..So he opens the styrofoam container and takes a bite and closes the container and puts it on the hood of his car. He then says wow..that is a good sandwich. I said I know. I even turned around and went back for it because I forgot it.

So he is telling me his stories of the day and says come and see the garden and all the work I have done in it..So we walk to the back of the backyard..I said it is getting dark we need to cook the stuff before it gets too dark out. So he takes another bite of his sandwich before he goes in the house..again comments on how good it is. He says how bad is my life right now. I have a cooler full of beer, I have a great sandwich and I am cooking steak and corn..

So he goes in the house. I go to grab the food and I here something.
I go to the door and the cat comes out of no where cause he heard the noise too..

I look out the screen door and I see it.
It is freakin' huge. At first I wasn't sure if it really was a raccoon or not because how big it was.

There is a raccoon sitting on the hood of Mason's car trying to hoping the styrofoam container.

I yell to Mason saying you got to come see this..I am in shock how big it is. I start yelling at it from the inside of the house..cause I am not going outside to battle that thing. It was that big. I have seen bears smaller than this thing.

It just looks at me like I am annoying it. The cat looks at me and runs away and hides somewhere in the house.

So now I am just amazed by the whole process of it.

The raccoon opens the styrofoam container. Picks up the sandwich. Takes a bite, decides it is a great sandwich and the..wait for it. Shuts the container. It jumps off the car..still holding the sandwich in his massive paws/hands..Mason's cooler is sitting on the ground in front of his car. The raccoon opens the cooler puts his paw in the cooler and picks up a beer. I yell to Mason not only is he stealing your sandwich he is stealing your beer. The raccoon decides he can't pick up a beer to take with him so he shuts the cooler, takes another bite of the sandwich (at no point does he ever put down the sandwich) and looks at me..kinda gives me a nod, like he is saying thanks and walks off into the bushes.

Finally Mason comes out of where ever he was and I am just standing in disbelief. I recap the story to him and he doesn't believe me that the racoon shut the container. He goes out to his car sees the container is shut and also looks at the foot prints all over his car.

I said you need to see this thing..it is the king of all raccoons..what do we have in the fridge that we can put out so we can get it to come out.
So we find some sandwich meat. throw it out on the lawn and sure enough what is considered a regular size raccoon comes out. Mason says is that it. I said no that is a baby..He said no that is a full size. I said compared to the one that just took your sandwich that is a baby. We could here the big one russling between the bushes.

So next time I was near the restaurant where I got the sandwich I ordered another one of those great amazing sandwiches..wasn't good. I don't know what it was..but it was never the same after that.