I've just spent 5 hours ( 4pm to 9pm yesterday ) milking over 200 cows on my own . It had been a quite a few years since I had last done it, but I was still surprised to find myself in a state of shock afterwards . . All that white with brown and yella flowing together - it was a huge constant challenge to keep em apart !
Strangely, despite the constant flood of manure and urine hitting the working desk , young son Jimmy and I agreed , at the very end , ( this is important because it was highly stressful for those 300 minutes) ......it was fun .( he constantly washed the stuff away and herded the mob)
After the marathon hours of torture in the pits, I was very tired. On the way home we had to turn back to return a tiny black kitten who had found its way into the car. Cats get a free ride on a dairy farm, and they clearly know how, at an early age, to get lots of em. Even though I had collected 200000 cups of coffee's worth of milk for someone else, the cats had clearly got more than their share too.; They do well .Can't help thinking cats know something we don't.
Nearly home ,who should pull up behind us, though , as we pulled out of Mackas for tea , just before 10pm , and want to know "why my the lights on my trailer ,now full of cowsh, weren't working."
Was the trailer registered?. "where was the label "? "Your licence Sir "?,
Jimmy later describes to his mother how I had this incomprehensible conversation with the police officer ( news to me at the time) . Jimmy thought the Policeman just gave up in the finish. I on the other hand thought I'd told him this and then went on to that .... when I clearly told him nothing . Half a dozen half finished sentences interrupted by a whole lot of irrelevant facts later , others knew I was failing as I tried to restrain my anger and grief at my big Angus tea going cold and our cones melting in out laps . Something about going to Phillip Island was mentioned eh? Some might even say, - for Modi ..."incomprehensible? "sounds normal !
I thought I had explained that i just fixed the detachable lights up ( which i had ) but had left them off for this trip.( minor matter of new bolts needed to stop it rattling ). "so where was the number plate and the label ?'I wasn't going to tell him I actually had 3 number plates off being" repaired ' at that very moment! I has explained NOTHING .
Can you ever explain your excuses? Should you try? Maybe I should have said the actual old faded lights still on the trailer broke when my son backed the trailer up onto the platform in his first driving lesson on the farm ( he couldn't reach the clutcheh!0. A fact, but not a relevant fact as farm loving trailers need the detachable kind of lights.( not the faded set that sit there and never work when you want them to!!)
SO , I made very little sense according to the highly intelligent young man who sat beside me the whole time ..At the end , I tried to say thank you to the police officer after he deliberated long within his flashing blue and red lighted local advertisement of my sins, and then unexpectedly didn't offer me a ticket , or points off ( wow and i thought policing in the country ...the sort where you learn respect for authority...was dead!).
Jimmy thought he was going to ask "what sort of drugs I was on;" What is it Sir ...some new form of crack? My passenger was sure infact that he was going to , at least........ breath test me
Not a good look------- but its not every day we try to do the impossible ....is it ?
Thats the country for you !
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