Happy Birthday Brigid/RPF

November 25^th, 2011

            I would like to preface this week’s RPF with a very important news bulletin, “Happy Birthday Brigid Hanley!” The big one-eight, sorry that I am not home to be able to celebrate the big day with you but I hope you have a great day because you deserve it. You have a great letter coming your way in the mail which is supposed to be coming there quicker or else I was played by the Honduran mail system (highly possible…). Alright with that announcement out of the way I would like to move onto the RPF for this week. This week’s RPF, in honor of Turkey Day being yesterday, is going to revolve around animals and how they do not get absolutely bored out of their mind, and which animal has to be the most bored of the rest.

            This idea all started as I was walking to the school the other morning and I walked by some cows that we standing on the side of the road not doing much which is a typical sight here in Honduras. I did not think much of it at the time and I went about the rest of my morning. On the way back to my house for lunch, I walked past the same cows and they were literally standing in the same exact spots as they had been when I passed them earlier in the morning. Now these cows could have moved around while I was gone but did some great work to get back into the exact same spots that they were in before, while I do not want to say these cows were not capable of it I do not think it is highly likely. That means that these cows for literally did nothing but stand in the exact same spot for four hours, and I was reminded of what my high school tennis coach, Mr. Bayer used to tell people when they were frustrated during a match. He would always say (in his most relaxed voice), “Just think of the cows, they are just sitting in the field chewing their cud, not a care in the world” (this was supposed to calm you down, and surprisingly it worked rather well). The other day I realized that statement is entirely true and cows really do not have any cares in the world because they really do not do anything all day just chew cud and maybe wander about for more cud. I figure that cows must therefore be incredibly bored; I mean that is what they do for their entire lives.

            I then tried to think of other animals and if they also probably had really boring lives as well and the answer is that yea most of them probably do have fairly boring lives. However I could not think of any animal that has a more boring life than the cow. Think about it, any animal that can fly automatically has a cooler life than the cow because they can go exploring and fly whenever and wherever they want; you cannot tell me you would ever be bored if you had wings and could fly. The next group of animals that I eliminated was any animal that lives in the water/can swim because again, swimming is just plain old fun. So that basically left the animals that live on land to sort through and every animal that I could think of seems to have a more exciting life that a cow. I do not know if there is any specific reason for me thinking that other than my obvious discrimination against cows, but if someone can name be an animal with a more boring life than the cow I would like to hear about it. Please if you think of said animal, leave it in the comments section below.