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GOOSE ON THE LOOSE

There’s a certain business office near a certain large pond in a certain city, where a certain person I know works. It seems that every day, a gaggle of several dozen geese walk across the busy street there from their wooded home to the pond.

They are so stuck up and sure of themselves, they don’t punch the “Pedestrian Crossing” button, or stay within the white lines, or anything. Consequently, traffic often goes “SCREEEEEECH!” as unsuspecting motorists brake, to avoid making pate right there on the busy intersection. It’s like the beloved children’s book, “Make Way for Ducklings,” on steroids.

Finally, it got so bad that someone called whoever is in charge of such things – wildlife or traffic safety officials – and someone came and rounded them up. Word around town is that they were relocated, but no one knows where.

Well, a lady who works with this certain person went ballistic. She is an animal lover to the extreme. Her position: those geese chose to live on that pond, so it is THEIR pond, and no matter how we humans might be inconvenienced or endangered by their daily foray into that busy street, we shouldn’t have removed them.

Well, there have been some hijinks in response. Someone put a recipe for “Goose Soup” on her chair. Someone else found a bunch of goose feathers, put them on a piece of paper with some ketchup and a taunting message along the lines of “I’LL BE BACK!” and put THAT on her chair, implying a goose homicide.

I know what she should do in retaliation: put a sign up where the geese used to walk, with the message: “Honk if you miss the honkers.”

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Prayer request: There’s a young cashier where I buy groceries who is struggling with carpal tunnel syndrome. Lord, Brenda is so young to have pain like that. We pray that this trial will draw her closer to You. We praise You for giving her a mother who is leaving no stone unturned to find her treatment and relief. Grant her healing and an end to her suffering, for Your glory. (2 Peter 3:18)