Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Hiding in the Tall Grass

I would like for you to meet some turkies:


These are but a few of the turkies that I see on my way to work each day. They stand around on the side of the road and lurk at me from the tall grass. This time of the year, they move in packs. Large turkey gangs. These are young turkies, and they are particularly brazen. This pack spilled over into the road and slowly poked around on the pavement. I and a couple other cars actually had to come to a complete stop in front of them while they considered their options and began shuffling off the road.


Turkies are also excessively weak-willed in their intentions, or else stupid. Just as it begins to dawn on some of their comrades that the road is no good and really needs to be avoided, new turkies begin mindlessly sauntering back out onto the pavement to see what all the excitement was about.


This turkey got too close to the car.





4 comments:

Steve Barnhart said...

Thanks David - it's good to see that Muskegon is still a wild place. But maybe this should go on the food blog.

So do you only see turkeys on the way to work, or do you also work with turkeys?

I'll bet if you mounted a 12 gauge to the handlebars of your CB500 the turkeys would get their act together.

Lisa said...

I wish I could see the king turkey glaring at me from the edge of the woods

Mike said...

Gangsta Turkies they be

Ben said...

Poor turkey that got too close to the car. You must have been running the engine hot that day...

I second Steve's suggestion, although it might result in some funny looks from other drivers. Perhaps you should also wear a leather jacket embroidered with "I only carry this shotgun so I can shoot wild turkeys sauntering across the road."