Funny conversation with a "city slicker"...

[Countrymom]

A year ago I was giving lessons to two city kids. One had taken a bit at the local show jumping barn near her city house. The other was her friend. We had two horses, a mare and a gelding. When we were done I told one to grab the gelding and the other the mare to take them back to the barn and unsaddle. The girl with less experienced asked me, "What is a mare?"

Another time a woman from the city was watching me work a horse. This particular horse was being a bit of a pain at the time and I was really working her hard. The woman told me when I got off that she really thought that horse liked me because she wagged her tail so much when I rode her. LOL I just smiled and said sure. LOL

 

[freemotion]

Years ago, before we were married, dh was watching me ride my mare, then about five years old. She spooked and shyed while I was cantering in the arena. He asked if that was one of those "flying change things." I patted my mare and said yes, yes it was....

 

[dianneS]

The same guy that thought I went out in the pasture every day with a pooper scooper to clean up after my horses the way he cleans up after his dog, thought that my horses were "wagging their tails" too. They were out in the pasture grazing and swatting flies and he said "oh look they're happy, they're wagging their tails!" I just said "yeah, sure."

This same guy asked about my mini horse who was just a baby at the time if he was correct that a baby horse is called a "fowl"? I had no idea what he was asking me, I just kept thinking birds. Birds are fowl. Then I realized he meant foal! I said "no, no a baby horse is a foal" He looked confused and said "are you sure?"

I also know a lady (who gets on my nerves!) and she had been visiting a sheep farm recently and she told me how she saw all of these little brown pellets all over the ground, and didn't know what they were. She asked someone, and they told her it was sheep poop! I said "You should be glad they didn't tell you they were Smart Pills!" She didn't get it since she never heard the old joke about the city girl and the country girl. (City girl goes to visit the country girl and they're walking through the sheep pasture. The city girl asks "what are all these little round balls on the ground" and the country girl says "They're smart pills, if you eat them you'll get smarter!" so the city girl picks a few up and pops them in her mouth and says "Ewww, those taste like sheep poop!" and the country girl says "See your getting smarter already!")

This same lady asked if the wire at the top of my fence was electric fencing, while simultaneously reached out and touched it! I said "yes and you're lucky its not hooked up, or you would have just given yourself a pretty good shock!" What the heck was she thinking??

 

[ducks4you]

We had a neighbor's stallion get loose several years ago. The horse had travelled a few miles and saw my GELDINGS. The owner drove up, apologized and said he was lucky that his horse had spotted my mares, so he could catch him.

 

[jhm47]

I once attended a business meeting in Fargo, ND. Across the hall from our meeting, the North Dakota turkey growers were holding their annual meeting. Their meeting was being picketed by some PETA members who had flown into Fargo in order to disrupt their meeting.

One of my business associates took the time to visit with one of the PETA picketers. My associate got the usual story about how mistreated the turkeys are in their huge, climate-controlled barns, and how all the turkeys should be "liberated", or turned loose. My associate then said that the ND winters are pretty severe, and if the turkeys were to be turned loose, what would happen to them. The PETA guy said that since turkeys originally descended from wild stock, that they most likely would migrate south for the winter.

Now, anyone who knows anything about domestic turkeys knows that they cannot fly at all, so I now have a vision of millions of turkeys walking down the median of interstate 29 on their way to Texas.

 

[ducks4you]

I once attended a business meeting in Fargo, ND. Across the hall from our meeting, the North Dakota turkey growers were holding their annual meeting. Their meeting was being picketed by some PETA members who had flown into Fargo in order to disrupt their meeting.

Sorry--just tickled my funny bone!

 

[Countrymom]

I once attended a business meeting in Fargo, ND. Across the hall from our meeting, the North Dakota turkey growers were holding their annual meeting. Their meeting was being picketed by some PETA members who had flown into Fargo in order to disrupt their meeting.

One of my business associates took the time to visit with one of the PETA picketers. My associate got the usual story about how mistreated the turkeys are in their huge, climate-controlled barns, and how all the turkeys should be "liberated", or turned loose. My associate then said that the ND winters are pretty severe, and if the turkeys were to be turned loose, what would happen to them. The PETA guy said that since turkeys originally descended from wild stock, that they most likely would migrate south for the winter.

Now, anyone who knows anything about domestic turkeys knows that they cannot fly at all, so I now have a vision of millions of turkeys walking down the median of interstate 29 on their way to Texas.

Yup, goes to show the idoits behind that organization.

I am down here in Texas and haven't had one visit from those migrating Turkeys from up north! Hope they get along with the wild Rio Grands.

 

[michickenwrangler]

A friend (raised on a farm) once told me that some vegans had been protesting the use of dairy cows, that it was cruel to milk them everyday. According to her daughter, she drove past these people shouting "Apparently YOU'VE never been engorged!"

Along that line, while I was nursing my daughter at the county fair one year, a few teenage boys were gawking at me. My friend's husband turned to them and said, "You can see more of that in the dairy barn!"

 

[dianneS]

We just had a piece on the local news last night about a cat that was stuck in a tree for seven straight days.

Apparently a neighbor had tried calling everyone he could think of, to get the cat out of the tree. He said that he called the fire department, animal control, the SPCA, the police and PETA!

I cracked up! He called PETA about a cat in a tree!! That's as bad as my husband's cousin who called 911 because she had a bear in her yard!

Seriously though, what is PETA going to do? Send Pamela Anderson to stand at the base of the tree in nothing but a sign that reads "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" ??? I mean really, what good has PETA ever done?

Needless to say, PETA did not come to the aid of the cat in the tree.

 

[jhm47]

Speaking of engorged, did Pam Anderson rescue the cat???

Well, I thought it was funny!