@mariannewest day 146 prompt-monkey
Little Carl was walking along the train tracks of his Midwest home town in Iowa, here in the United States almost sixty years ago as a young kid living on a farm with his family, messing around carrying his Red Rifle BB gun that he had gotten for Christmas that prior year.
Quite often he shot at tin cans stationery targets sharpening his aim and killing nothing but time in the overly humid oppressive Iowan summer day. He was about to go home that day when he realized much his surprise something hopping along the train tracks. He could not make out specifically the animal but he started following it, causing him to be out late, much later than he was supposed to be out making him late for supper. He knew that would surely get him a whooping from his dad, but curiosity kept him following this animal for almost another hour as it was almost getting dark. He looked finally focused in and saw the animal was a monkey. Of all things this animal must have escaped a zoo or a circus because these things don't just run around secluded wooded areas in the Midwest United States.
He knew that if he went home and told his dad that he was late he get spanked for lying and being late, and maybe even further punished for coming up with a lame excuse. So quickly he aimed his little pellet gun, fired toward the monkey and it ran off. Carl never told his parents of the story of the monkey on the railroad tracks, never saw it again, and only mentioned it again to a friends about forty years later after a fast pitch softball game tournament game while having a beer with his teammates making them laugh hysterically at his amazing run in with the monkey as a kid.
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Very creative story! You have to wonder how he escaped and I wonder what story he made up for being late! Nice piece!
He didn't make up a story, he didn't tell anybody. He just took his medicine and never talked about it to them. Apparently he had some pretty strict parents, this happened in the US in the early 1960's in a very rural agricultural area setting.
When you think about it: it's true but sad that kids can't tell their parents what happens to them because they don't think they'll be believed! Nice story - thanks!
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Hmm...where did the monkey come from? I wonder how far it traveled? Too bad that some stories are too strange to be believed so that he had to scare it away.
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Why did he shoot at him? To make him run away from the area?
Lol, his comment to us when I was told the story, of course we were all laughing pretty hard by then, but he thought I've gotta shoot this thing and bring it home with me or they'll never believe me. Good detail find in the story, of course he says he could've thrown a rock as quick that bb would fire. It took him almost half an afternoon to tell this story because we were at world men's fastpitch softball tournament, played one game and had like a full day wait after that, so yeah we had some time to kill. The guy that's telling the story made it about ten times funnier, which you know how that can go. The whole team was sore the next day from laughing so hard not at all from playing the one game that day, lol.
That sounds like a fantastic experience!!! And stories sometimes really need to be told in a group. But this was pretty funny as is.