Have You Seen This? You really otter see this

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ADORBSVILLE — When I was around 10 years old, my parents took my older brother and me golfing. My dad and brother were ahead of us on the hole and my mom was helping me line up my drive. She told me what to do and then stepped back to let me do my thing.

I was a pretty dumb kid, and as soon as she let go I started to swing. I brought that driver back as fast as I could. Unfortunately, instead of getting a full backswing, all I got was a full shot to my mom's stomach.

I hit her so hard that I knocked all the wind out of her. The noise that came out of her was something between a cement truck hitting a brick wall and a gorilla falling out of a tree. The point is, I hit her really hard. As a 10-year-old, I thought I'd killed her. Thankfully, I didn't and just gave her a black-and-blue stomach.

I tell this story because the force with which I hit my mom with that driver is the same force with which the cuteness of this video hit me right in my heart.

I don't fully know what's going on here, but I do know there are a bunch of otters fascinated with a vacuum and I can't get enough of it. I'm not really a pet guy, but I have this sudden urge that I have to own an otter and I can no longer wait.

This video was shot last year in Japan. I don't know why there are so many otters, I don't know why they are entranced by the vacuum, and I don't know why I'm just finding out about the video. But I don't care about any of that. The only question I need to be answered right now is, where do I get an otter?