Ever been duped by rural people?

[Poka Lola Luau]

I moved to a farmhouse not far from L. Michigan for a few years. When I first got there, a few people told me the story where they chopped a water moccasin in half and it wriggled itself back together and started chasing them. One of the neighbors was a pretty good actor. He almost had me believing there was a U.F.O. hovering outside above the woods.

Two ladies drove me to a cherry tree field where they had sparsely strung bits of deerhide, antlers, and hooves in the trees, making me believe some psycho had done it. They later confessed and laughed their asses off.

Another guy was freaked out after driving through the two-tracks (really narrow dirt roads) and finding fresh dug ground the size of three graves. He said there were clothes laid out over the ground like a person would wear them, one of them a child.

They never pulled the "go ahead and pee on the fence", (electric), trick on me, thank God. It's been done to other people.

The party store owner was a hunter who had taxidermy animal heads on the walls. One of the heads was a horse's head, which was odd.

When they did succeed in fooling me it worked because given a choice between a dark alley and alone in the pitch black woods, I'll take the alley anyday.

Anybody have any stories?

[Dennis K]

Pa said flour and sugar and coffee costs so much. Because I am a country boy because boys in town. Bicycles. Why do flour and sugar and coffee cost so much when he is a country boy.

[west3man]

Pa said flour and sugar and coffee costs so much. Because I am a country boy because boys in town. Bicycles. Why do flour and sugar and coffee cost so much when he is a country boy.
Is that from a song or something?

...or are you guilty of PWI?

[Dennis K]

Is that from a song or something?

...or are you guilty of PWI?


Taken from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

[Solaris]

I moved to a farmhouse not far from L. Michigan for a few years. When I first got there, a few people told me the story where they chopped a water moccasin in half and it wriggled itself back together and started chasing them. One of the neighbors was a pretty good actor. He almost had me believing there was a U.F.O. hovering outside above the woods.

Two ladies drove me to a cherry tree field where they had sparsely strung bits of deerhide, antlers, and hooves in the trees, making me believe some psycho had done it. They later confessed and laughed their asses off.

Another guy was freaked out after driving through the two-tracks (really narrow dirt roads) and finding fresh dug ground the size of three graves. He said there were clothes laid out over the ground like a person would wear them, one of them a child.

They never pulled the "go ahead and pee on the fence", (electric), trick on me, thank God. It's been done to other people.

The party store owner was a hunter who had taxidermy animal heads on the walls. One of the heads was a horse's head, which was odd.

When they did succeed in fooling me it worked because given a choice between a dark alley and alone in the pitch black woods, I'll take the alley anyday.

Anybody have any stories?


Just don't let them take you "Snipe Hunting."

:D

[Michael P]

I moved to a farmhouse not far from L. Michigan for a few years. When I first got there, a few people told me the story where they chopped a water moccasin in half and it wriggled itself back together and started chasing them. One of the neighbors was a pretty good actor. He almost had me believing there was a U.F.O. hovering outside above the woods.

Two ladies drove me to a cherry tree field where they had sparsely strung bits of deerhide, antlers, and hooves in the trees, making me believe some psycho had done it. They later confessed and laughed their asses off.

Another guy was freaked out after driving through the two-tracks (really narrow dirt roads) and finding fresh dug ground the size of three graves. He said there were clothes laid out over the ground like a person would wear them, one of them a child.

They never pulled the "go ahead and pee on the fence", (electric), trick on me, thank God. It's been done to other people.

The party store owner was a hunter who had taxidermy animal heads on the walls. One of the heads was a horse's head, which was odd.

When they did succeed in fooling me it worked because given a choice between a dark alley and alone in the pitch black woods, I'll take the alley anyday.

Anybody have any stories?
*laughs at the greenhorn*

[TinMan]

I moved to a farmhouse not far from L. Michigan for a few years. When I first got there, a few people told me the story where they chopped a water moccasin in half and it wriggled itself back together and started chasing them. One of the neighbors was a pretty good actor. He almost had me believing there was a U.F.O. hovering outside above the woods.

Two ladies drove me to a cherry tree field where they had sparsely strung bits of deerhide, antlers, and hooves in the trees, making me believe some psycho had done it. They later confessed and laughed their asses off.

Another guy was freaked out after driving through the two-tracks (really narrow dirt roads) and finding fresh dug ground the size of three graves. He said there were clothes laid out over the ground like a person would wear them, one of them a child.

They never pulled the "go ahead and pee on the fence", (electric), trick on me, thank God. It's been done to other people.

The party store owner was a hunter who had taxidermy animal heads on the walls. One of the heads was a horse's head, which was odd.

When they did succeed in fooling me it worked because given a choice between a dark alley and alone in the pitch black woods, I'll take the alley anyday.

Anybody have any stories?

If the L stands for Lawton or Lawrence, I'll die laughing.

Boy, you must be a gullible city slicker to buy all that crap then eh? I can't say as anyone tried to convince me of any of those things the whole 18 years I spent out in the boonedocks.

[StoneGold]

One of them told me I had a purty mouth...

[TinMan]

One of them told me I had a purty mouth...

I done toldja I was drunk that night!

...and you didn't have to open it either...

[darkkeeperjr]

They would had gotten me with everything except the water moccasin story.

[tricksterpup]

Taken from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Thats why I had to read it a couple of times to understand it. ;)

[Cotton]

I live near some rural communities. The people get real bored sometimes. The problem with some of these stories is that they might be true. (Most of them are too far-fetched.) For example, once my friend told me that he and his cousin held a .44 bullet on a vice, then used a hammer and a nail to fire it. I thought it was bull, but it was confirmed by his granddad and grandma. Now I ain't sure if his grand-parents were pulling my leg, but they seemed convicted to the story.

[BlairH]

I've been duped by city folks on more than one occasion.

[Harlock]

I've been duped by city folks on more than one occasion.
Did you have to pay for a "date"?

[Poka Lola Luau]

Pa said flour and sugar and coffee costs so much. Because I am a country boy because boys in town. Bicycles. Why do flour and sugar and coffee cost so much when he is a country boy.

Loopy posts for loopy experiences. That's my motto. Onion trees, Dennis.

[Dennis K]

Loopy posts for loopy experiences. That's my motto. Onion trees, Dennis.


My mother is a fish.

[Dan Apodaca]

I've been duped by city folks on more than one occasion.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a121/danapodaca/nelson.gif

Score one for my team!

[TinMan]

I live near some rural communities. The people get real bored sometimes. The problem with some of these stories is that they might be true. (Most of them are too far-fetched.) For example, once my friend told me that he and his cousin held a .44 bullet on a vice, then used a hammer and a nail to fire it. I thought it was bull, but it was confirmed by his granddad and grandma. Now I ain't sure if his grand-parents were pulling my leg, but they seemed convicted to the story.

Just to inform you; the pin that fires a bullet inside a gun is essentially a "nail being hit by a hammer". This is not a wives tail or far fetched, that is actually how a gun fires a bullet.

[Poka Lola Luau]

If the L stands for Lawton or Lawrence, I'll die laughing.

Boy, you must be a gullible city slicker to buy all that crap then eh? I can't say as anyone tried to convince me of any of those things the whole 18 years I spent out in the boonedocks.

I was in Hart, about seven miles away from Lake Michigan. It's south of Ludington, north of Muskegon, near Pentwater and Lake Michigan. I met a lot of decent, friendly, and interesting people out there and had a great time.

separated for the loopy impaired as this point doesn't quite connect I did miss chinese food, though.

[Phoney Bone]

Just don't let them take you "Snipe Hunting."

:D

I have taken many "city folk" snipe hunting. They always fail to catch one. It's not like snipe are elusive birds or anything. I always fail to understand how urbanites (who are allegedly smarter than us bumpkins) can't do something as easy as catching a snipe. They fly right into the sack, for Pete's sake! It's really frustrating.

[Paradox]

The odd thing about the whole snipe hunt bit is that it has firmly convinced many people that snipe do not exist, when in fact they are a very real bird.

http://www.aves.net/ohio-shorebirds/snipe-in-hand.jpg

Only time rurals have fooled this suburban lad is when giving false/folksily obscure driving directions ("Now, do ya know where that old field Bill drove his car into last summer?"). Never could figure out if they were screwing me on purpose or not. I know as a mischevious kid, I certainly did it on purpose on more than one occassion. :evilsmile