Today my B and I took a lovely bike ride down the North Shore Channel Trail. We saw statues and sculptures. We biked past picnics, through parks and pretty close to a rowdy swimming pool. We saw bunnies, dogs and babies.
Then we saw geese. Canada geese. A whole little gang of them. Two or three large ones and a couple little goslings.
We rounded a corner and as my B passed the geese and their goslings he hollered to me, "Watch out! They might go for us!"
It was too late. A large goose came at me as I sped by. It opened its gross beak (or is it a bill?) and hissed a mean goose hiss at me, with its disgusting goose tongue sticking out at me.
According to Wikipedia's Canada Goose entry:
When threatened, geese stand erect and hiss.Bullshit! I was not threatening that goose or its rude gosling gang. The geese were loitering on a path. And they hiss at me!?!
My gun-control-loving father has long advocated the right to bear arms for the sole purpose of shooting Canada geese. I think he's got the right idea.
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Ha! I don't know if Kyle ever told you this but as he was working Target, the geese were laying eggs in the bushes so they became really aggressive towards people. Well, Kyle, being the security guard, was doing rounds in the parking lot, minding his own business, when I goose flys right to peck his eye out! He had a bruise and the stupid goose broke his glasses. That wasn't the only time the geese attacked Target employees.
Also, last summer as I was walking to the pool i was attacked by a goose even though i was far away. Kyle didn't believe me... that is until this spring.
Now Kyle cries a little when he sees geese. ;)
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