Me, friday- face to face with a beast (true story)

[underpants]

So, the day after Thanksgiving I get geared up (cold weather, iPod) and go out for a 10K run at my folk's place. I take off into the wide open spaces between the mountain ranges of the Shenandoah Valley. Beautiful crisp day with a nasty 10 MPH head wind the whole way out.

I get to my turnaround down a country road surrounded by Mennonite farms and then I saw it. I must have run right by it totally in the zone of running (damn you Moby!!) I would have never expected it had it made a move on me. So now I am about 200 yards away from it -What are my options? I guess I could have taken a left and ran back to my folk's place but truth be told I never even considered I was deep into how I was going to "handle" this situation.

So I slowly made my way right back at it. I decided that the best approach would probably be to appear strong and not afraid, no sudden movements, just go straight at it. At this point it was right in the middle of the road. I was about 50 yards from it. Deep breath stay cool I'm not afraid I can do this IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!! I tell myself.


Closer and closer I get. It moves to my right. Okay stay strong. I am 25 feet from it now and it JUMPS! I am going straight at it-straight down the road now. At about 10 feet it breaks into a run ....to my right. It leaps over the ditch I keep running but it stops and we lock eyes. I stare right at it. Our eyes are completely locked as I pass. I didn't flinch I wasn't afraid it could see it in my eyes

[GOPisEvil]

1. Such a vicious, cud-chewing beast!

I'm so glad you survived. :hug:

[underpants]

9. Me too

if I hadn't I wouldn't have

[Bunny]

2. Thank GOD you survived!

Chilling. :scared:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear underpants!

Wow, you really dodged a bullet, didn't you?

This is a story worthy of Jack London, or someone...































:rofl: :rofl:

[matcom]

4. I LOVE the smell of cud in the morning

smells like....

VICTORY!

[underpants]

7. Yeah

I pretty much just released my inner warrior

[RetroLounge]

5. Nice Post, Sasquatch!

Obvious Photoshop...

RL

[mzteris]

6. you got me.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Gotta watch out for those killer cows.

[underpants]

8. There's a whole bunch of payback there

:scared:

[BarenakedLady]

10. Excellent!

:applause:

[texanwitch]

11. Cows can kill.

I was almost killed by one of on my Grandparent's cows.

My Grandfather still kept a little longhorn mix in his cattle, so the cows had some good size horns.

One day in summer I was walking in the area behind the barn and a cow that just had a baby started running at me.

I had no where to go, no gate, a new barb wire fence behind.

I was looking at death at the horns of that mad mama cow.

I somehow jumped the new barb wire fence, I didn't climb it.

The new fence was over 6 feet high.

One second I was inside the fenced area, the next second I was outside the fenced area.

Yes cows can be a danger.

[underpants]

12. Especially....

MAD COWS!!!

[texanwitch]

16. It was a mix of new baby and August heat.

That cow was big, and very pissed of.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. Proof positive that you're no cow-ard!

:evilgrin:

[xchrom]

14. C-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-W!!!!

[DS1]

15. until the part of the ditch leaping, it thought it was going to be one of these

[tigereye]

17. I thought you were gonna tell us about a bobcat, or some such...

or a bear.


:hi:


Hope you guys had a nice Thanksgiving!

[underpants]

19. It might as well have been

it was a rogue!!!

[Der Blaue Engel]

18. TOMACCO!!!!!!

That's what it wanted, I bet. You should really carry some at all times if you're going to run in rural areas.

[underpants]

20. YES!!!

[bluedigger]

21. Another tragedy narrowly averted!

So, are we to now address you as "dirty" underpants?

;) :rofl:

[underpants]

22. Yes, it was close

and No you can not

:bounce: