Thursday, August 25, 2011

Logistics

Once the foxhunting bug bites, the effects are chronic. Consider:
1. An avid foxhunter announced to her friends that she had just gotten engaged, and naturally they asked about her wedding plans. It went without saying that she'd wait until at least next April, after hunting season was over.
2. Because of bridge construction, another foxhunting friend is obliged to turn left out of her driveway instead of right. It's a tricky turn to make even with a car, between two steep embankments, much less when you're heading out before dawn hauling a trailer.
Foregoing hunting during the month-long bridge repair was, of course, unthinkable. First she got a quote from an excavator to widen the driveway, but she and her husband balked at the price.
So, being a resourceful soul, she pinpointed the exact spot at which she needs to cut the wheel so that she doesn't send her rig plummeting into the creek on the other side of the one-lane road. She marked the spot by erecting a tomato stake with a CD duct-taped to it. The moment her headlights catch the CD, she makes the turn and is on her way.

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