Monday, December 01, 2008

Repenting at Leisure

Boo had to go and see her boyfriend. She bellowed non-stop. She wouldn't eat. Her boyfriend was running and jumping in circles and blubbering desperately trying to find a way out of his pen and coming pretty close to succeeding a few times and not doing the fence any good either.

The farmer was trying to do some chores and couldn't stand to listen to it any more even though Boo wasn't supposed to be bred until next month. "Fine," the farmer said and put Boo in with her boyfriend.

Peace.

One day passed. Boo woke up in alarm. How did I get here? She said to herself.

She was trapped in a pen with a large smelly creature almost entirely lacking in the social graces not to mention rather a pig like herself and not one she could simply steamroller out of the way as she was accustomed to doing in her previous home when the hay-and-grain trolley came through.

She bellowed non-stop.

The farmer didn't care, because the pen was far enough away that the bellowing had almost a romantic sound, like a little ship lost at sea in a deep fog. "How quaint," thought the farmer.

And as an added plus, Boo's boyfriend had completely given up trying to find ways out of his pen since he now had a live-in girlfriend and a very fine lady at that even though she had recently taken to running from him with a surprising amount of vigor for a Nubian. This of course only made him like her better.

"You made your bed," the farmer said to Boo.

"Wha-a-a-a-a-a-a-at???" bellowed Boo.

"And now you must lie in it."

"Wha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-at????"

3 comments :

Marigold said...

It simply MUST be something in the name.

Anonymous said...

Well, I'm beginning to believe all that talk about Nubians being..NVB...Not Very Bright because she doesn't know how lucky she is...hence she doesn't know because she's NVB. I'm stuck in here with TWO would be boyfriends who don't know the first thing about romance, not even the first thing because,well...one-they are wethers and two-even if they weren't, I'm not so sure they'd know because I think they're a little NVB, themselves.
So, I'm very envious of Boo, right now, even if she can't appreciate being so desired and loved. Nubians...I'm beginning to believe it!

goatgirl said...

A perfect example of...Be careful what you wish for.