Tricks country folk play on City Slickers

[welsummerchicks]

The other thread on funny things city slickers do made me think of this for a thread.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

At the fair each year we take chickens eggs and put them in the bunny cages. Always worth a laugh when people say "Oh look, the bunny laid an egg!". Kind of scary when people actually mean it though! I always think it's cute when kids think the bunnies with eggs are the easter bunnies.

 

[WriterofWords]

Snipe hunting

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

One year at the state fair some rabbits (there the week before chickens are) were left. After having spent several days in a cage behind the counter, the superintendant put them in an empty cage right in the middle of a row of chickens. Got lots of interesting comments. Nope, not next to the silkies; that would have been a riot.

 

[Mahonri]

So let me ask you this, Have you ever seen the STAR on the bottom of a cow's teat? ... you have to get your head down real close to see it.

Great fun.

 

[Rozzie]

From a few of the world's large religions:

Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state.
Analects 12:2

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:1

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga 5,1

This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.
Mahabharata 5,1517

That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself.
Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5



It is not kindness to play tricks on other people, especially when you are making fun of something they don't know. So called city "slickers" don't fall for these tricks because they want to. They've had no reason to become acquainted with the ways of animals, and often no opportunity to do so, even if they wanted to. On the other hand, many a rural dweller is just as lost if suddenly tossed a bus schedule for a major U.S. city...or asked to drive off the major freeways ("but, but, but...we don't know what streets are safe...")

 

[redhen]

 

[suzettex5]

Weeeeeelllll, I did tell my hubby those white stringy things in a raw egg were rooster sperm. It was soooo worth it to see the look on his face!




I told him the truth soon after.

 

[herfrds]

cow tipping.

Rozzie you must have never had people cut you off while driving a loaded 2 ton grain truck then slam on their brakes in front of you. Or had a driver deliberately swerve trying to run you off the road while hauling a load of cattle in bumper pull trailer. believe me I can go on and on about some of the nasty things these city slickers have don to us, so any joke we play on them is better then them trying to do bodily harm to us. At least our do no harm except make them feel like fools later.

Best one, preg testing a steer.

 

[ChickenToes]

My dad used to have an small alligator head that he kept on top of the gun cabinet. I'm not sure why he had it in the first place. Anyway, we had a city slicker from Alabama convinced that we had caught it ourselves out in the woods. Note - we live in Northern Wisconsin.