Re[2]: [acornlive] Funny Story
Carol Cheevers (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:02:35 +0200
This is not funny. It's stupid!
p.s.
I had to write an essay on the topic of "stupidity" once, and learning its
definition which is "extreme dullness of perception" seems to apply to your
mindset at the time of the incident and also your decision to circulate it.
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Subject: Re: [acornlive] Funny Story
Author: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
Date: 08/06/00 12:48
ok thanks for the email send all your storys to me P THE GREAT WORK JOEY D
:)
>I have a pretty funny story for everyone out there, particularly for those
>of you who may not be so rural as me. I went fishing on Saturday, my buddy
>Doug and I were way up the side of Steamboat Mountain in Southern British
>Columbia, when all of a sudden there's about 30 cattle just sitting around
>on the road. There's no way around, nowhere to turn around for a couple of
>miles as this is a narrow, forested logging road. So I figure, 'Hey, I've
>been around stock all my life' so I hop out of the car. Doug's like, 'what
>the hell are you doing' and I told him not to worry, and grabbed a
>convenient stick and began moving cattle. Now you gotta know, these cows
>have been in Summer Pasture on the Mountain for a month or two, and, though
>docile, they sort of go wild. THe trick is to make sure you aren't standing
>between a cow and her calf, especially when they are starting to get
>independent like now. Anyways, I'd herded these cows off the road, when I
>hear this bleating up on the hill. I look up and there's this calf standing
>on the other side, scared-looking, next thing I know, it was like slow
>motion, this mean-looking cow charges up at me, snorting and all, right
>around the front of the truck, nails me hard into the ditch, the calf runs
>off and the cow walks away behind it. My friend Doug jumps out of the
>truck,
>sees I'm ok and starts laughing, saying he's never seen nothing so funny in
>his life. I landed pretty hard though and my neck still hurts a couple days
>after. Beauty day, good fihing, regardless of sunburn
>
>
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