You Can Pick Your Friends

And you can pick your nose.  But you cannot pick your friend's nose.  If you are a cow you can use your tongue to lick your nose, your friend's nose and anything else within reach.

This morning on the radio, they were talking about sledding in Oklahoma and how people are creative in what they use whenever they don't have a sled.  Back in the good ole days when Debbie and I were newlyweds, we met a couple in Okmulgee.  Somehow we acquired a "cattle crossing" sign and decided to use it to pull each other behind a Volkswagen station wagon after a sleet storm.  I don't remember Debbie and Paula being stupid enough to slide around on country roads behind the car, but Eric and I sure did.  It was great fun.  At first, the sign didn't work well because the edges kept digging into the road and we'd crash.  I figured out that we could bent up one edge by inserting the sign between the boards on the wooden porches at the apartments we lived in.  Redneck engineering, don't ya know.  That stopped the crashes due to the edge digging into the road.  That did not stop crashes due to excessive speed and being totally out of control behind that car.  Wiping out into the bar ditches alongside the roads was great fun because the sign acted like a weed-wacker and mowed down the ice-covered grass.  In retrospect, perhaps it was me and Eric acting like weed-wackers.  Hmmmm.  Eric got a real kick out of watching me crash.  We got a kick out of Eric when we passed a house and this huge dog started chasing the car.  Eric was freaking out and yelling, "GO! GO! GO!"  and using one hand to pedal faster down the road.  The dog must have thought the car was using Eric as a fishing lure, er, doggy lure.  hee hee.  The sign used to be in one of Danny's barns.  Dunno if it is still there or not. 

Always wondered about the missing sign at the cattle crossing.  Did the cows cross the road anyway?  Or did they just stay on one side because the sign was missing?  I can see the farmer drive up and looking at the cows herded together next to the road.  "Why don't you cows go over to that other pasture?"  "Duh.  Dude, the sign is gone."  LOL