I did much the same thing once in Hiawassee, Georgia, when I was 11 or 12 years old. After we (members of the local Lions Club chapter and their children) unfolded and set up 5,000 folding metal chairs for the Georgia Mountain Fair (long before it became the huge venue it is today), I walked over to give two horses in an adjacent pasture some potato chips from the bag I’d bought. A boy’s voice behind me said, “Hey kid, can’t you read?!” I stepped back—and only then did I see the hand-made “Don’t Feed the Horses” sign, hanging on a fence wire, which I had been leaning against while I gave the horses their treats…
Horace could have some fun here by painting, “Pegasus was here! How about some apples?” over the sign. The non-quadrupedal-stance, yet equine, hoof prints, and the lack of any horse’s teeth-cropped grass, would be consistent with a winged horse doing multiple “touch-and-go” landings, then painting the message with a paint brush held in his teeth…
Now that he got there, he could next do that old hare trick. Walking backwards and carefully step his old hoof prints. Then hiding behind a bush nearby and see what happens…
This is mindless bureaucracy at work. Someone was told to put up the sign but wasn’t told where to put it. To be on the safe side the flunky placed it in the middle.
blackshire over 5 years ago
I did much the same thing once in Hiawassee, Georgia, when I was 11 or 12 years old. After we (members of the local Lions Club chapter and their children) unfolded and set up 5,000 folding metal chairs for the Georgia Mountain Fair (long before it became the huge venue it is today), I walked over to give two horses in an adjacent pasture some potato chips from the bag I’d bought. A boy’s voice behind me said, “Hey kid, can’t you read?!” I stepped back—and only then did I see the hand-made “Don’t Feed the Horses” sign, hanging on a fence wire, which I had been leaning against while I gave the horses their treats…
blackshire over 5 years ago
Horace could have some fun here by painting, “Pegasus was here! How about some apples?” over the sign. The non-quadrupedal-stance, yet equine, hoof prints, and the lack of any horse’s teeth-cropped grass, would be consistent with a winged horse doing multiple “touch-and-go” landings, then painting the message with a paint brush held in his teeth…
Hugh B. Hayve over 5 years ago
‘Replace all divots’
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago
Years ago, when I delivered flyers, I would walk right up to the mailbox and see “No Flyers” in tiny letters on it.
over 5 years ago
They got you good, Horace.
J Short over 5 years ago
As Marion Barry once said, “Bit** set me up!”
InTraining Premium Member over 5 years ago
That’s a relief… I thought it said “No Horses”…!
scyphi26 over 5 years ago
Methinks they should’ve put up a slightly bigger sign…
Rev Phnk Ey over 5 years ago
Got that sign from the old man’s yard did ya?
chris_weaver over 5 years ago
Don’t go up to the sign! IT’S A TRAP!
Obi-Haiv over 5 years ago
Must not be in Colorado.
BlueFin Premium Member over 5 years ago
Now that he got there, he could next do that old hare trick. Walking backwards and carefully step his old hoof prints. Then hiding behind a bush nearby and see what happens…
erniejpdx over 5 years ago
This is mindless bureaucracy at work. Someone was told to put up the sign but wasn’t told where to put it. To be on the safe side the flunky placed it in the middle.