Robert enjoyed my squirrel hunt story, so I am posting my favorite how bad is/was my hearing dear.
I will start this topic with my âmuskratâ story: so itâs about 2010, and I am still working for the USDAâs Natural Resources Conservation Service, stationed in Alexandria, LA. While driving south on I-10, to a meeting in Lafayette, and accompanied by a District Conservationist (DC) from one of our northern parishes. And he declares:
âOh my G@#, look at that infestationâ. âThat pasture is covered with itâ. âWith whatâ I say. âCanât you see itâ. And I say âsee what, whatâs out thereâ. âMuskrats, theyâre all over the placeâ.
Well, I am thinkingâŠthe pastures around us are nicely rolling high ground, arenât muskrats generally found in wetlands and swamps? So I look again, the grass is about 10 inches high, and I donât see a thing. But I ack like I doâŠâman they are taking over that pastureâ. âAre you having this problem in your parish?â âOh yeah, itâs worse north of hereâ. So I ask, âwhat are you doing to combat this infestation?â He adds:
âWell you kill them, of courseâ. So I start thinking how you would accomplish thisâŠtrapping, Varmint shooting, maybe even from helicopters like with feral hogsâŠoh yeah. âHow do you generally kill themâ. And he says, âyou poison them of courseâ. Now I am thinking âpoisonâ. How do we get them to eat this poison, will it harm livestock, where do we put it, along trails, near a muskrat hole? Plus, âwhat kind of poison do you generally use?â
Here it comes guysâŠhe repliesâ nothing special, any common herbicide will kill âSmutgrassâ.â Not muskratsâŠI started laughing at myself so hard I started tearing up. He got mad thinking I was laughing at his accent. I assured him that was not the reason, and that my wife had been after me about getting my hearing checked. And I now use hearing aids. And yes, they do help. Hope you guys find this as funny as I did.
WB
lol, yes, clearly any herbicide will get those pesky vermin
I also have started having my moments with hearing . That indeed was funny
My hearing is pretty bad. I can hear the words but canât understand what they are. When my wife says 'X", I hear âYâ or some other thing.
One day I was cutting some keys in the shop and the customer was talking. That key machine noise along with my bad hearing led me to hear him say that he had to get back before it rained so he could bring in the monkey food. So when I finished with his keys I told him the story about my hearing and told him what I heard him say. He just looked at me for a minute and then said, âThat is what I said.â He works next door at the feed store and they had the contract to provide the feed to the experimental farm at the airport in New Iberia. They just got a truckload in and he needed to get it into the warehouse before it rained. I laughed my ass off.
Mike, that is so funny. I would have thought the same; and my wife loved it.
WB
Thatâs Hilarious, I smile and nod when I canât here something. As you can imagine itâs not always the expected response.
Grand Poohba,
Been there done thatâŠmany times. Now, when the speaker starts giving me that glazed over look, I immediately let them know I am not able to hear them. Still happens some in very crowded environments.
BW
I canât believe I just thought of this, but it all reminds me of the âway to go Brandonâ incident as well.
WB