What's on your mind today?

[DeterminedJuliet]

Ali! Don't leave me hanging on the goose! I need to know now!

[The Magic Pudding]

On a completely different topic from cars, I almost had to kick a goose today.  I've decided that geese are awful creatures, and if I decide to eat meat again, it will be goose.

A neighbour's (about 130 metres away) geese once decided to make my back yard there territory once.  They'd honk and carry on when I went near them, very annoying.  It was said you couldn't train geese but I disagree.  A broom and a scary attitude and they didn't come back.  I don't particularly dislike geese though, except when they get all shouty and make legally unjustifiable claims on my back yard.

[Amicale]

On a completely different topic from cars, I almost had to kick a goose today.  I've decided that geese are awful creatures, and if I decide to eat meat again, it will be goose.

A neighbour's (about 130 metres away) geese once decided to make my back yard there territory once.  They'd honk and carry on when I went near them, very annoying.  It was said you couldn't train geese but I disagree.  A broom and a scary attitude and they didn't come back.  I don't particularly dislike geese though, except when they get all shouty and make legally unjustifiable claims on my back yard.

@ legally unjustifiable claims.

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at a friend's house during the summers, and the house was right by a river -- her back yard went down to a dock. Geese were all over the dock, and all over the back yard. They prettymuch chose the place as their summer hangout. The problem was that while they were cute, they pooped absolutely everywhere. Every step you took, you had to watch carefully. So one day, my friend and I were hanging out, and we ran down to the dock to jump into the rowboat. Her little sister decided to follow us, but she didn't watch where she was stepping as she ran, so she slipped on the goose poop, and went straight down.  It was on her jeans, all over her shoes, in her hair, just everywhere. We wound up cleaning her off with the garden hose. To this day, that kid has hated geese.

[Buddy]

Clunky noise fixed Turns out, Boss Hogg had a bolt loose somewhere. After a quick tighten, he was back on the road again.

[Guardian85]

Clunky noise fixed Turns out, Boss Hogg had a bolt loose somewhere. After a quick tighten, he was back on the road again.

So it was an inexpensive clunk? Good for you!

[Buddy]

Clunky noise fixed Turns out, Boss Hogg had a bolt loose somewhere. After a quick tighten, he was back on the road again.

So it was an inexpensive clunk? Good for you!

I had some help, it was my first time working on anything mechanical. Horses I can deal with. Cars? I am as ignorant as they come. 

[Sweetdeath]

Without proper storage, keeping my room is,a moot point.

I think i'll head off to  Target to get those plastic bins.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Now I must go to bed without ever knowing about Ali and her goose 

[OldGit]

Ali, don't kick at a goose.  It puts you off balance so you might slip on the goose-poo and fall over and it'd peck your head off.   Also, it'll probably try to peck your leg.

Seriously. spread your arms out like wings, bend slightly so as to bring your head lower and go at it.  Hissing also helps.  It'll think you're a bigger goose, and run.  As a boy, I used to have hours of fun chasing my dad's geese like that.

Recently some geese ran up to us in a park (really only looking to be fed, I think) and I taught my 4-year-old grandson this trick.  It doesn't work for him, he's too small!  But he loves doing it, anyway.

[En_Route]

Looking forward to the forthcoming Annual Shoelace Collectors Convention.

Are they going to have a seminar on carbon fiber aglets?

Probably too controversial. Passions run high on this topic, with the pro- metal traditionalists threatening to form a breakaway association.

Footwear aficionados are a fractious, fissiparous lot. Plus they tend not to get out much.

I'd have thought that the cotton-poly revolution would have put paid to their pretentions long ago, but I suppose some concessions must be made for the sake of unity. I hope you have a grand time!

Shoelace aficionados are a fractious, fissiparous lot.  Plus they tend not to get out much. Most of their  surplus energy is devoted to composing lengthy diatribes railing against the iniquities of the Sandals Appreciation Society.

[Tank]

Looking forward to the forthcoming Annual Shoelace Collectors Convention.

Are they going to have a seminar on carbon fiber aglets?

Probably too controversial. Passions run high on this topic, with the pro- metal traditionalists threatening to form a breakaway association.

Footwear aficionados are a fractious, fissiparous lot. Plus they tend not to get out much.

I'd have thought that the cotton-poly revolution would have put paid to their pretentions long ago, but I suppose some concessions must be made for the sake of unity. I hope you have a grand time!

Shoelace aficionados are a fractious, fissiparous lot.  Plus they tend not to get out much. Most of their  surplus energy is devoted to composing lengthy diatribes railing against the iniquities of the Sandals Appreciation Society.

Pfft. Slip-on shoes have always been the best. Bloody string merchants!

[Buddy]

Pfft. Slip-on shoes have always been the best. Bloody string merchants!

I will have to politely disagree, good sir. I find that leather boots are better as they are durable, comfortable, and practical.

[Ali]

Sorry DJ!  The reason why I almost had to kick a goose is because it charged me!  Dreadful things, geese. 

There is a very pretty pond area across the street from where I work.  On nice days, I try to get out and do a couple of laps around the pond to stretch my legs.  The geese by the pond are always evil tempered, but they are especially evil tempered right now because they have new goslings running around.  I get that.  If goslings are anything like newborn humans, these geese haven't slept in weeks. But still.

I was walking around the pond, and I was literally as far away from a Goose Family as I could be without actually falling in the pond.  But I was still too close for one of the Parent Geese, and s/he started hissing at me (as geese are wont to do) and then actually started flapping it's wings and ran towards me a few steps.  I've actually been bitten by a goose on a prior occasion (my grandma gave us a sack of stale bread and took us to a duck pond when I was a child.  Big mistake.) so I know that goose bites hurt like hell and leave bruises.  I was unwilling to turn my back to the enemy, for fear that my derrier would make too inviting a target, so I jumped into this kind of karate stance.  The goose was unimpressed.  We stood there glaring at each other for a long moment (me still in my psuedo-karate stance) and then I slowly backed away and moved on.

OldGit, I will have to remember to modify my karate stance to Goose Stance, should another confrontation happen.

[xSilverPhinx]

LOL

Geese are such aggressive creatures. I should get a bunch and let them run rampant during Calculus class.

[DeterminedJuliet]

hahaha, oh my. Sorry that you had a bad encounter, but the story is pretty amusing. 
Geese are jerks.