If you love ferrets, stop reading NOW...

So...this may possibly be one of the funniest things Aaron's ever told me about from his work. Why this hasn't already been made into an "Office" episode is totally beyond me. There is this lady at work, whom we'll call "Jane" for the sake of the story (I can't remember her real name), and she had been talking to Aaron last week about her kids alot. Aaron suddenly realized that he had never heard her mention that she had any kids before, so he said, "I didn't know you had children." And she gave him this look like he was ridiculous and said, "I have TEN of them...you know, ferrets--they're my kids." SO THEN, today, "Jane" comes over with this "thing" around her neck and he thought it was a scarf, and all of a sudden it started moving, and she said, "Aaron, I'd like you to meet Gimli, one of my kids." Then, she became completely involved in talking to the ferret as if Aaron wasn't even standing right there saying things like "Mommy loves you, you gotta stay calm, we're going to the vet today...etc. etc." (this went on for like five extremely uncomfortable minutes). And so to break the awkwardness, Aaron tried to pet him--and he immediately bit his hand! Then "Jane" started freaking out at her ferret saying “NO! Gimli! How many times do I have to tell you that we don’t bite in our family??? You’re going to be grounded for a week!!!” And then she puckered up her lips, stuck her tongue out and the ferret like went crazy “kissing/licking” her! !! Aaron was so freaked out he turned around to let them have their “moment.” For the rest of the day she kept telling people that she was mad at her ferret because he bit Aaron, and he was being disciplined, and then people kept coming up to Aaron and asking if he needed a band aid. Later, “Jane” came up to Aaron again after she had “grounded” Gimli in his cage, and was telling him this crazy story about how one of her ferrets had escaped and he was gone for like a whole month, and she was convinced that he had solely survived by scavenging fabric (because it makes TOTAL SENSE that a ferret would be able to find enough fabric to survive on in the woods for a MONTH). After the ferret returned, he died due to over-consumption of fabric. WHAT?????????