The weird case of the squirrel attack

Maybe you remember that 2 years ago I share the case of the falling duck inside our CEDES offices in Monterrey. Well this year I had a closer encounter of the third kind with an impertinent squirrel.

The summer break at Santa Fe Campi started on the first of July, when the last students of the summer period ended classes. This has made the Campi feel quite alone and empty and some of the services are not available.

I think that the lack of students, has made that the amount of wasted food available for the animals is less, and in the case of the Bulling Squirrel the hunger have given her the courage to approach the tables with the diners eating their meal.

The weird case of the squirrel attack, started when my eating meal group aproach to the eating zone with our trays and our food, and the squirrel decided to jump over the umbrellas that cover us at the moment. The squirrel jumped from umbrella to umbrella, looking for a way to get down to the table and I suppose grab some food. The problem was that the people hasn't eated yet and we wanted to eat first.

The chipmunk jumped several times, so I decided to move to a table that was farther from the umbrellas, and the rest of my eating group decided the same thing. Later the PhD Porras and Romero arrived to the same table that we just left. The squirrel decided to jump at them by surprise and try to take something from their trays.

Dr. Porras has at the moment a knife and try to chase off the impertinent squirrel but it didn't alter, so both Doctors decided to move to an adjacent table nearer us, and thinking that the squirrel would not attack at the same space.

The Bully Squirrel, did not give up and landed to the next table trying to reach again for the food trays. All of us were between nervous and worried, respect to the reaction we would have if the squirrel decided to step up on our table. All of a sudden, a lady near us, think about a solution, she approach the chipmunk with a tortilla and give it to her. The squirrel decided she had enough and get on her tree again.

The reflection this incident left on me is the following:

1.- The animals in the cities do attack when in hunger, so try to consider hand some of the food that could save us a good scare.

2.- The group solidarized in front of a threat, that was not big but aggresive enough, I think all the people around started to think on several solutions to the case, so sharing a little of stress with the adjacent people could bring some options to solve the problem in a faster and effective way.

3.- Share the food could be useful in tension moments.

How many times have you seen the need to share your meal to get out of a stressful situation? Tell us.