meet ping and pang

a couple of weeks ago i went into a super-store to buy cheese because the regular grocery stores don't carry it, and came out with two turtles instead.  it was a hypocritical purchase; i don't really like the idea of buying a pet that you know you can't care for for its whole life and i also don't like supporting the way a lot of pets are sold here, but reason was lost to me when i looked at their tiny old-man faces from where they sat in a large stack of tiny plastic containers, each holding two tiny turtles.  they now have an aquarium with a plant, a little stairway they can climb up to a second floor and a tunnel to hide in.  I named them Ping and Pang (pronounced pong in chinese), which works well because pang is a homonym for fat and he is the bigger eater and larger of the two.