Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[lizardz]

This thread is too funny

and soooo true. Have heard many of the same comments, but the funniest was from my husband (poor, city raised boy) when we were discussing getting some property (I had moved away to live in the city, but wanted to return to the land). We were discussing how much property we wanted and where and he, always looking for a tax write-off, said we should do some kind of farming - "There must be some kind of farming that's not too labor-intensive." I just about spit coffee out my nose! We've now been living on 40 acres for about 15 years and he's finally getting pretty well broke in to the country thing. And, no, we don't do any kind of "farming."

 

[NonnasBabies]

I was at work one day and was sitting there talking to our Captain and another deputy. I had forgotten to bring his eggs to him that day when he asked "Your gonna remember to bring my eggs tomorrow?" I said "Yea sorry I forogt today!" When our Captain popped up and said "You talking about eggs from your own chickens?" I said yes and he replied back "Oh I won't eat any eggs that don't come from the store cause I got some once and when I cracked it open it had chicken feathers in it. Never again!"

He was dead serious! I know I looked like a fish trying to get over that ignorant comment and say something them realized I would seriously be a smart ass and just shook my head and walked away. I still can't believe something so ignorant came out of this grown mans mouth!!

Missi

 

[Ferrret]

Not a comment made to me, but while grocery shopping BF and I walked past the egg section and an Eggland's Best carton caught my attention.
On it it had all kinds of nutritional information in bold and a huge slogan saying 'Now Healthy for You!'

I commented to BF that eggs must have been unhealthy to eat before, but they fixed that.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

"That's not a chicken! It's a rooster."

"Do you think they are male roosters or female roosters? I think they're female roosters" (long discussion on a shopping network between the two hosts and a caller to the show about some rooster figurines)

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

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I hate that one! "do you have chickens or roosters?"Anybody ever heard of the word "hen"?

 

[ranit]

Sitting at work trying to look busy, and also trying not to laugh too much reading through all these - don't want to give away that I'm really NOT working.

I get asked all the time when I take my silkies & japanese to swaps:
Do bantams lay eggs too? (Not sure where they think bantam chicks come from.)
Can you eat them? (I patiently tell them they taste like any other chicken egg are just smaller.)

 

[Telamon]

one day at the mall of georgia, there were no parking spaces, one guy was coming with some shopping bags full of stuff he needed, my mom said '' are you going? '' then he said '' im going '' and then my mom said '' where are you going? '' and then the guy said '' i'm going! ''


then my mom just drove back home really mad that we wasted 50 miles of gas...



xD

 

[corancher]

I was asked where bacon comes from. When I started to explain the area of the hog. She looked at me and said no what animal?

 

[PineappleMama]

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Yup, totally different species, just like us... me being a Venusian I only breed with Martians... can't stand Mercurial tempers, Plutonians are too emo for my taste, and those guys from Uranus... well they're just weird.

 

[itsachicken]

preppy*hippie*chick :

I also love getting new Fed EX people when shipping semen. (Horse semen). There's something about city boys and the idea of being anywhere near the semen of another creature that really gets to them.

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!! I've noticed that same thing. You should see them turn green if they actually see any of the collection/use of the semen! One time, I had a date show up early when I was running extremely late (it's a farm, after all). A co worker sent him down to the breeding barn where I was inseminating mares. Of course, he walked in as I was in "mid coitus", so to speak. Long story short, dinner was awkward and we never spoke again.

I've got a million of these stories! It's always surprising when somebody doesn't understand something you've lived with all your life. Most recently (since I've gotten my urban chickens), people seem to think all chickens are white.​