I thought we might tell a few things that now as we look back on them are funny but at the time they happened were not. Come on gang time to fess-up. Tell ole Doodle about it.

 

          When I was a youngster about 12 years old I lived on a farm. I had a very loving Mother and a Dad that knew how to hand out discipline but also was a hard core practical joker.

          One of my chores , early in the morning , was to go out to the hen house and gather eggs.

One morning I took my egg bucket and walked into the hen house and stepped right on a big ole snake. Well, I was scared to death of snakes , so it took me no time at all to leave the hen house and run back into the kitchen where my Dad sat drinking his third cup of coffee. I told him with a panicy voice that there was a snake in the hen house. Well, Dad went out to the hen house and found the bull snake that was in there and took it out side and let it go in the field next to the house. Dad wouldn't kill buul snakes because they were not poisoness and they kept the mouse and rat population down. He then came back into the house and instead of telling me about the bull snake he hollard at me telling me that there was no snake in the hen house and for me to get my tail back out there and gather the eggs.

           Well , Now I knew I had seen a snake but you did not dare talk back to Dad so I very learily walked back out to the hen house. I had my egg bucket in one hand and a flashlight in the other as I very cautiously steepped inside. What I didn't know was that my Dad had followed me out to the hen house and was standing right behind me. I sprayed the light from the flashlight all over the floor of the chicken coop and finally was able to bring my self to take another step inside. Just as I took that secound step , my Dad reached up and clipped a clothespin on my ear. LOL . Well, needless to say I almost created another door in the hen house and was jumping and yelling and stomping and kicking and slappin' myself in the ear . I just knew that snake had bit me in the ear.

          In the meantime my Dad was almost laying on the floor, laughing. He was holding is sides and laughing so hard I thought he was going to die of Ha-has.

          My Mom jumped all over him when he was finally able to tell her what he had done and I was still in so much shock and the front of my pants so wet and it took me the rest of the day to stop shaking.

          Now, lets hear some of yours.