Posted by phone monkey at 1cust238.tnt3.minneapolis3.mn.da.uu.net on March 06, 2002 at 12:19:13:
A friend of mine collects them. A dead pet story is about the sudden, tragic demise of your beloved pet. Bambi, roadkill and dinner do not count, unless dinner used to be your pet.
The Gosling:
A family is driving down the road, and they hit and kill a goose. This is not a dead pet, but the goose had a gosling, and the family decided to take it home and raise it.
The gosling was very much loved by the family. One day, the father decided that the gosling was now old enough to rejoin his fellow geese. The family gathered together in the car and they headed out to where they had found the gosling, intending to set him free.
The family gathered by the road and watched the adolescent goose waddle towards the other geese, tears in their eyes.
But the gosling was not accepted.
The geese charged the gosling and began pecking furiously.
The father saw this and began chasing the geese to try get the gosling away from them.
The geese kept moving farther on, eventually dragging the gosling into the middle of the lake and drowning him.
This father hope to impart on his children a beautiful lesson about nature and life, kind of like Born Free.
And what a lesson was learned -- the goose had been away too long.
If you don't walk right, talk right, or god help you, smell right, they will drag you to the middle of the lake and peck you to death.
Just like junior high.
Or the View Askew WWWBoard.
It's ok.
A fellow newbie