When we first moved back home to Central Oregon from Alaska a friend of ours decided they also were going to move back to the lower 48 and called and asked if they could stay with us and apply for a police job with the county that was open. The only child they had was a teenage son named Tony (not real name) Tony was ticked off, he did not want to be a country hick, hicks were stupid and living on a farm was boring with nothing to do. How he would live to regret those words. Here is only a few on the things the country girls of mine thought that city boy.
First off he thought he was a three wheeler expert as he had a 3 wheeler he used to run around the flats in Alaska on and thought he was quite good. The girls were going out to the back forty to shut the irrigation pump down and invited him to go with them. He bragged about how they could not keep up with him and this was going to be boring. The girls got on the 3 wheeler and off they went with the girl in the lead, what the girl in the lead, well when the girl came to the electric fence they ducked thinking that Tony would too, nope he hit that line going full out as he was trying to catch the girls, it almost de-headed him. He was minus the skin from just above his should all the way to his chin and his butt was laying in the field....first lesson, duck when you come to the fence.
Coming back girl had mercy on the city boy and stopped at the fence, keeping their feet on the pegs they held the fence up and went underneath. Yep, if you know anything about electric fences I am sure you can picture what came next. City boy pulls up to fence puts his feet down and grabs the fence to hold up. BAM! Electric shock extreme and he is on his back again. Those chopper fences will knock a horse off their feet let alone a little city boy.
The country girl was still in the lead when they arrived back at the house. City boy was behind and walking very sore but I must admit he was not making any remarks about how no girl could keep up with him, in fact I never heard that remark again the 3 months they stayed with us but I did hear. You have to be tough to be a farm kid. You really have to be smart about everything to be a farm boy......
Country girls rock, I always did wonder if maybe that Country girl was proving a point instead of just turning off the pump and did a little of that smart thinking about how to get one up on the city boy
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You forgot the time he was pheasant hunting with me and caught the barrel of his shotgun on the electric fence while standing in a puddle of water or when he peed on it! ROFL
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