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I read a couple of posts that reminded me of raising chickens during my teenage years. My favorite chicken story-yep, I gotta fav chicken story-involves an avowed Christian lady from the big city who moved into the neighborhood. She saw my chickens do what comes naturally to chickens and assumed that I'd taught the chickens to dance and ride each other piggyback. I'm serious. She told my cousin about her preposterous theory, and he told her what the chickens were actually up to. Offended and alarmed, she came to my house and told me to teach the chickens to mate in private. Yes, I was supposed to teach the chickens to have sex inside the coop, away from her prying eyes, lest I go to Hell over the amorous display that the birds were putting on. To this day, I burst out laughing if I see her in public. I'm not trying to be rude; I can't help myself.

Date: 2009-03-10 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eqfe.livejournal.com
And I suppose you made her watch. See this is why in New England they say good fences make good neighbors. I would never think to go to a neighbor house and make demands like that, so in my view she's the rude one not you.
Edited Date: 2009-03-10 10:57 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-03-10 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyapple27.livejournal.com
Here in the NC mountains the saying is "Don't bother me, and I won't bother you." It's amazing that she charged into my yard without checking out the local social customs. She was just too ridiculous to take seriously, although some of my neighbors don't have my sense of humor and would have been deeply and permantly offended.

Date: 2009-03-10 01:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scoobiedoggie.livejournal.com
Did you ever eat the chickens? I know when I was growing up, watching my Grandma hang the chickens from the clothes line and cut their heads off freaked me out the first time I saw it. Especially when they kept moving afterward. I can only imagine her reaction to THAT! LOL

Date: 2009-03-10 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyapple27.livejournal.com
She'd would've freaked out and called PETA!

Yeah, my grandma chopped off chickens' heads in preparation for Sunday dinner. She didn't use the clothesline method; she put the chicken's neck on the chop block. To keep the headless chicken from flopping around, we threw a bushel basket over it.

As I grew older, I made pets out of the chickens and couldn't bear to kill and eat them.

Date: 2009-03-10 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yesididit.livejournal.com
wow, i think i'd laugh too.

Date: 2012-11-19 01:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brotherskeeper1.livejournal.com
I think someone should do their Christian duty and instruct this woman about the birds and bees =)

Date: 2012-11-20 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyapple27.livejournal.com
He he he-I think that an overdose of warped Christianity caused her problems in the fist place. God created chicken sex, and he gave chickens bird brains, so, obviously, He intended for chickens to get it on in public.

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