I’m giggling today from inside my home. I live on a country road now and as I’ve told you in an earlier post, we have corn fields across the street that the migrating geese have chosen to call home for now. Literally hundreds of geese are covering the acres of corn fields that the farmer has recently razed. Did you know that a bunch of geese on the ground are called a gaggle of geese? But when they are flying, they are called a flock of geese? There’s your new fact for the day if you didn’t already know it!
Ok, back to my story…
Today it’s drizzling and from my quiet living room, I keep hearing car horns. Every third or fourth car that travels down the windy road pushes on his car horn in a succession of beeps and slows down. From my window, I can’t see the reason and it’s a very unusual occurrence here to hear the cacophony of car horns.
So I finally went out to investigate. It seems that the geese are sometimes stepping off the farmer’s property into the road or getting so close the edge that the drivers are feeling wary and in warning, are honking their car horns.
Every time a car honks, the geese honk back in greeting! It’s got me in a fit of giggles. I can’t help myself. Frustrated drivers are swerving in anticipation of the possibility of hitting an unaware goose who ambles close to the road and the rest of the flock fuss at his car horn! A few even have rushed the car, wings outstretched, necks out, honking and trying to bite the car wheels. Not that they even get close because usually the car speeds up once it realizes that there may be a goose chase. But it’s funny to watch! Laughter is the best medicine!
It reminds me of that childhood game….Duck Duck —-GOOOOOOSE!
Shine On!
xo
P.S. The photo above is not by me as I didn’t feel like getting sopping wet in the rain or having the geese who are already agitated decide to goose me too! LOL
Ah nature Misifusa, always there to enlighten our journey 😀
There truly is Mark! I just had to share because it made me smile! Hopefully it made others smile too! 🙂
Go figure- the geese don’t have hands to wave (or fingers to flip) so they do the next best thing–LOL
LOL fingers to flip! That made me laugh! Thank you!! 🙂
you’re welcome
Glad your gaggle of geese is good for giggle.
The Canada geese that gaggle in (and flock to) our ‘hood think they are crossing guards ~ deciding which cars, bikes, and pedestrians should be permitted to pass. 😀
These were similar as well! Funny how they just take over and decide for themselves! 🙂
This reminds me of the old Farside cartoon of geese honking as they fly through a tunnel.
Oh I think I’ve seen that one Dan! How funny! Thank you!
Too funny! Reminded me of the college campus both my boys went to. It has a rather large lake on it (shaped like a bra so it was nicknamed bra lake)! LOL! There were always a ton of Canadian Geese in and around bra lake and they often got in the road. The police chief on campus told the students at orientation that they were a protected species and if they ever ran over one it was an automatic $500 fine! Yikes! I threatened by boys that they better not EVER run over one of those geese!
Oh how funny! Thanks for sharing your story of bra lake! I loved it Gail! Your sons would never do such an ugly thing! I’m sure of it! 🙂
Thanks for that!8)
You are so welcome Katie! 🙂
Love!
Thanks! 🙂
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