Learning through dumbness

[EAMULE@aol.com]

I had had my first horse for just a few months way back when I was 23 years
old and  I was working on a hog farm.  On weekends I would ride Secret the 2
miles to the farm to feed the hogs.

The first time I did this I discovered on arriving at the hog farm there was
NO place to tie Secret.  The farm had no trees or fences anywhere near it.

I had the great idea to tie Secret to the feed hopper outside the farrowing
house.  This worked beautifully until I went inside the house and proceded to
turn on the auger to bring the feed from the hopper to the bin inside.

It never accured to me what I had done until one of the guys who worked on the
farm came in and asked me if that was my horse running down the road.

Can you imagine what poor Secret must have thought when the thing she was tied
to started shaking and making unbelievable racket and was obviously going to
eat her?

Twenty years later I still have Secret.  She has survived all these years in
spite of me!

Ellen
Memphis