Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[sred98]

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I had a greyhound once that I rescued from the pound (35 pounds when I got it), completely emaciated.

I had it in the bathroom, because it couldn't walk, so it would be contained with food/water/bedding. My EX walked in there and screamed. He thought it was a giraffe?!? Where on earth would I have gotten a giraffe? Insane!

They are beautiful dogs, though. She finally went up to about 85 pounds of solid muscle.

Shelly

 

[TrinkaPuppy]

I am a city slicker, but was raised with SO many animals, and have worked with them since. The lack of common sense when faced with animals is amazing to me, sometimes.
Like, the sheer number of people who told me I'd get salmonella poisoning and die, b/c of my job working with animals...if that were the case, surely there would be far less animals in the world.
The people who tell me their dog is 3 pounds, and when I see it for the first time, it's clearly 20+.
The people who tell me that chickens carry all sorts of disease that can stay in the ground for hundreds of years...after all, it happened on the show House!
I've been informed that my snakes could possibly eat my 2 year old daughter. (The ones that can't even eat a full grown rat yet??....I don't think so!!)

MY FAVORITE:
I have two...TWO friends who refused to eat my hens eggs b/c they were terrified of finding a "beak in the yolk" or something when they cracked an egg. Trying to explain that I did not own a rooster, and therefore would be impossible not to mention the fact that the new babies don't form that way just didn't do it for them. They were actually convinced that a wild bird could potentially fertilize my chicken!!!.......??
CRAZY!!!!

 

[twinlights]

Most people think ponies are baby horses. So they get confused when I show them a horse foal and a pony foal. "How can a baby have a baby they say!"

I have to explain to them that ponies do not grow into horses, they are like short people, they stay short!!

 

[jvls1942]

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country bumpkins ? country bumpkins? and you have the gall to repremand us??

start your own thread..

I for one am not going to apologize for anything on this thread.. "It is funny, I don't care who you are."

Larry the cable guy says so..

 

[hikerchick]

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country bumpkins ? country bumpkins? and you have the gall to repremand us??

start your own thread..

I for one am not going to apologize for anything on this thread.. "It is funny, I don't care who you are."

Larry the cable guy says so..

Well, Ok then.

BTW I am a country bumpkin.

Just saying.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

4hooves&featheredfriends :

A couple of years ago I took my Warmblood Paint X to a horse show locally, a young woman was walking by and said;

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"Oh that must be one of those New Jersey cows."

I kid you not she was meaning Holstein I think, but not to know the difference between cow and a horse?

LOL But there really is Jersey cow

 

[hikerchick]

OK - how about the stupid things we say to ourselves?

I had been living in York County PA for a year or so...lots of cows here but not many horse farms..I was driving down to Baltimore and I saw a group of animals grazing on a hillside, and I thought "what skinny cows!"

They were horses.


I knew then that I had lived in York County for too long.

 

[b.hromada]

Funny thread!! In all honesty though, I volunteer in my friend's kindergarten class, and those poor little kids no nothing about what is called "farm animals" Last year, I snuck in a couple little chicks and a duckling, almost all the kids said that they were "birds", I then said, yes, its a bird, but do you know what kind of bird it is? Only maybe 2 of the whole class knew what they were. It's very sad, and most teachers really don't go into detail about farms and animals. My good friend's is the exception, she feels that its very important for the children to know these things, and I for one, agree. I remember one time, she showed the kids a picture of a wheelbarrow, and not one, knew what it was? How sad is that?

 

[hennypenny9]

Eh, I think HikerChick already redeemed herself for that comment, lets not get mean.

And I grew up with chickens and ducks, in a relatively small town. I have stayed in Tokyo and New York City, and I would say that although some city dwellers may be sophisticated... They seem to be a minority. You can act as crazy as you like in a large city and no one even looks at you, but in a small town, word gets around of what you did. Don't get me wrong, I like cities. Love the ease of the transportation system, walking everywhere, always something open, variety of food and cultures. There's lots good to say about cities.

But I fear that people who grow up in a city and never leave are missing an important part of life. Nature! Yeah, Central Park was lovely, and there were ducks in a pond, but it's just not the same. I guess what I'm saying is that I can go to a city and be totally fine. But could a city dweller go to my parents small town and be fine? Would they collect eggs, and fend off coons, and never have cell phone reception? Be out of power for days because of a storm? Maybe. But then they're not really "city slickers" are they?

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

b.hromada :

Funny thread!! In all honesty though, I volunteer in my friend's kindergarten class, and those poor little kids no nothing about what is called "farm animals" Last year, I snuck in a couple little chicks and a duckling, almost all the kids said that they were "birds", I then said, yes, its a bird, but do you know what kind of bird it is? Only maybe 2 of the whole class knew what they were. It's very sad, and most teachers really don't go into detail about farms and animals. My good friend's is the exception, she feels that its very important for the children to know these things, and I for one, agree. I remember one time, she showed the kids a picture of a wheelbarrow, and not one, knew what it was? How sad is that?

Thats why there makin it harder and harder for us ranchers to provide 'em with food, right there. Folks never teach 'em where food comes from, so they grow up thinkin cattle are just fartin field ornaments, with no purpose whatsoever except to deplete the ozone

, cuz after all, there meat comes from the grocery store, not from an animal. They sure like there steaks and burgers but there makin it near impossible for us to raise 'em.​