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Don't Get Yourself Into a Pickle!
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I got an email from a fellow LP member and it reminded me of something I wrote in my Blogger blog a few years ago.
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
- Will Rogers
It was a Senior Work Day, and we boys were working on a Saturday, making some money for our class trip after graduation. We castrated pigs that morning, then after lunch we were instructed to move some irrigation pipe. Someone noticed an electric fence on a nearby pasture and the question was raised:
"Say, you ever pee on an electric fence?" Out of the six of us, four admitted they had and another boy and I were the only ones to admit to have not having had the experience.
"Do it!" the four urged me and the other guy. I shook my head, having been around electric fences before and not liking how the shock went through me where I had made contact with the fence after not seeing it and then accidentally walking into it. The shock was bad enough on my thighs, the thought of having "it" shocked wasn't appealing to me, not at all.
The taunts went on, but I didn't care because those words didn't hurt nearly as much as electricity. Maybe I was the only one who had been awake in eighth grade science when we learned about electricity and in particular how salt water can be a circuit and conduct current. For one experiment, we used a pickle to complete a circuit; it glowed inside and crackled like an old pool hall beer sign.
Nope, no need for me to electrify MY little dill.
The other guy was challenged by the sneers from the rest and with a show of bravado, marched over to the fence, unzipped and after a few moments of potty blush, began to urinate on the charged wire.
While others claimed to have seen a spark, I must have been in the wrong position, but I did see the guy's knees buckle, then straighten up to launch him into the air and land backwards into a muddy ditch.
It took him a while to recover, then he became angry at our laughter and turned his rage upon me.
"Your turn!" he commanded.
With tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, I declined again. "MY momma didn't raise no fool." I told him, which made him even angrier.
"You're the only one who hasn't done it!" he said. "We'll make you!" he went on, looking around at the other boys for allies.
One by one, the others shook their heads, saying they really HADN'T ever peed on a fence, just wanted to see if someone would do it.
This set the guy off and in a profanity-laden tirade, accused them of being liars.
"Better that than a dumbass." was the reply.
Comments
I was reading this at work and started laughing, couldn't stop. A lady I work with asked what was so funny...I couldn't tell her!
That was so freaking funny!
I hate getting shocked and while an electric fence is bad enough, a cattle prod is a hundred times worse. I can only imagine what a taser would feel like and hope I never have to experience it.
When I went back to school some years ago, some guys liked to charge up capacitors for the unwary to pick up and get zapped. I was wise to that, having had that done to me by my pop when I was a kid. He only used small capacitors though; some of those the guys used in the trade school were huge and could have been heart stoppers!
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