Bassmama
10-10-08, 06:14AM
I live in the country. True, it's a LOT less country than there used to be, but it's still country.
12:30 this morning I was awakened by mom's phone ringing, so I answered it before it woke her up. (I have an extension upstairs)
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Officer ....... with the R........ Town Police. I'm calling because we have an officer at your door & he can't get anyone to answer his knock. Are you the people that have the farm stand next door?"
"Yes- it's my brother's. Is there a problem?"
"Do you have cows? There are 2 loose running around & the officers are trying to find out who owns them."
"No- but I think the people next to us have a couple." She hangs up to call the neioghbor & I get dressed & go downstairs & outside to talk to the officer. He's brandishing a flashlight, his car is parked behind the house with the spotlight shining out into the fiels, I'm barefoot & the cow is nowhere to be found.
"He was behind the farm stand, but ended up heading this way- see? I'm following his tracks. They're pretty mellow- just eat & slowly walk. I wonder where he went?"
It's not a 'he', dummy' I think & wander around for a few minutes with him. Cows are 'shes', bulls are 'he's' 'I hear that the owner has been located & decide to go back to bed, wiosh the officer a good night & come back in the house.
What's the strangest thing you've ever been awakened for?
12:30 this morning I was awakened by mom's phone ringing, so I answered it before it woke her up. (I have an extension upstairs)
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Officer ....... with the R........ Town Police. I'm calling because we have an officer at your door & he can't get anyone to answer his knock. Are you the people that have the farm stand next door?"
"Yes- it's my brother's. Is there a problem?"
"Do you have cows? There are 2 loose running around & the officers are trying to find out who owns them."
"No- but I think the people next to us have a couple." She hangs up to call the neioghbor & I get dressed & go downstairs & outside to talk to the officer. He's brandishing a flashlight, his car is parked behind the house with the spotlight shining out into the fiels, I'm barefoot & the cow is nowhere to be found.
"He was behind the farm stand, but ended up heading this way- see? I'm following his tracks. They're pretty mellow- just eat & slowly walk. I wonder where he went?"
It's not a 'he', dummy' I think & wander around for a few minutes with him. Cows are 'shes', bulls are 'he's' 'I hear that the owner has been located & decide to go back to bed, wiosh the officer a good night & come back in the house.
What's the strangest thing you've ever been awakened for?