• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    This just unlocked one of my weirdest childhood memories. I played fastpitch softball as a kid, and at one away game the school’s softball field was next to a pasture. During warmups and the first several innings, we watched a guy dig a hole in the pasture. In the second inning or so, we hear a gunshot off in the distance, and the third has a truck dragging a horse corpse to the big hole. The man shoved the horse corpse into the grave, and takes three innings to bury the horse.

    At the team huddle after the game, one of my teammates said an eulogy for the horse.

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      4 months ago

      I think we’ve made some great progress today, don’t you? How does next Tuesday at 11 sound for our follow up.

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      4 months ago

      That’s brutal…

      I went to a middle school that sat next to a farm. A number of our athletic matches were canceled due to the cows getting out and one was canceled because the farmer shot a coyote on our baseball field & left it.