Hey squirrel - what are you doing with that plastic bag?

This morning's walk definitely gave me something to laugh about. I was approaching a bridge across a fountain on the Merrimack College campus when I spotted a squirrel tucked in to a hole beside the bridge. Of course I was passing a little to close to the little animal, so it jumped onto a nearby tree trunk. That would have been normal behavior except for the empty plastic bag it had in its mouth. True to my normal habit of talking to creatures who can't talk back, I asked the squirrel what it thought it was doing with the plastic bag. The squirrel's response? In the next moment I saw a plastic bag dropping out of the tree!