May 15, 2005

  • ....For What You Have.

    It was only as I fell violently backwards into the electric fence, with
    the mattock and the huge strip of uprooted orchard grass on top of me,
    that I thought:  "Hmm.  I'm glad I have an office job during
    the week."  The verbally-expressed translation was a bit  --
    briefer.

    And you.........?

Comments (17)

  • when i worked at the zoo, my partner once bent over to clean up a pile of something awful, and then stood up into the electrified wire, zapping herself right into the top of her head.  don't think i didn't laugh.  a lot.

    i'm not laughing at you, though.

    much.

    hope your office job is easier on you.

  • Oh no. That's a nasty shock -- literally and figuratively.

    My then-fiance was playing volleyball at a friend's house. Friend had horses behind an electric fence, which had been turned off because the ball kept going over into the field. The time that it was R's turn to get the ball, he reached for both parts of the electric fence to separate them and step through. Unfortunately, friend's mom had turned the fence back on. We all thought he was joking around... he still won't let me live down the fact that I laughed at him.

  • It's been a crappy day, so I am just glad it's almost over.

  • I'm glad you have an office job during the week, too.  Ouch! Blessings abound

  • Oh, darling...I hope the shock was slight.

    Irony of ironies, I sit before this computer after being driven inside in utter terror of the wasp's nest I accidentally uncovered whilst attempting my first trimming of the azalea bush out back.

    Our white-collar work still burns us on occasion, doesn't it?

  • i'll bet you said something very similar to what i said when i hit the carpet face first last week.
    yep.
    i'll bet it was short, succinct and to the point.

    at least you kept your sense of humour.  you always have been a live wire. 

  • I'm laughing with you, not at you.  You are so eloquent whilst intimating profanity.

  • Ouch!  Hope you are OK today at ytour office job

  • In my earlier years I thought of myself as a physical, hands-on type of person.  More and more, as I do things around the homestead, I am reminded that I have actually spent most of the last 25 years sitting behind a desk.  That puts me in no-man's-land, however, because I'm hard pressed to develop a self-image of "intellectual".

    One modern sage said, "There are those who learn by observing others, there are those who learn through diligent study, and then, there are those who have to pee on the fence!"

  • I was scorching the earth (smoke GOT in my eyes), tending the yard (breaking my back), and watching my baby graduate from High School...

  • Taking apart my two computers on the weekend to do a hard-drive transplant, to transfer files from one to the other, so I could get rid of the older one...

    ... made me thankful that if I ever need a service like that at work, I can just call one of the people we pay to do that.

  • I intentionally grabbed a naked wire with my fingers to see if it was live once. It was. I was 7 years old. Sadly, I haven't gotten much smarter in the 27 years since...

  • briefer verbally expressed translation:

    fuckityfuckfuck.

  • lol at myki............. and no, i would NEVER laugh at someone else's pain................much

  • I haven't been shocked by an electric fence since I was a kid.  My cousins had ponies (which made me green with envy), and I had a few run-ins with their "containment system".  Seems the ponies were smart enough to avoid the wire, but not me. 

  • OUCH!!  Big Hugs to you 

  • how are you recovering from THAT??? how awful!

Comments are closed.

Post a Comment