A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a story of mine that was kind of crazy but true, concerning my little white chinchilla. I called it “no horse pucky.” (I think “horse pucky” is a hilarious word so I wanted to use it.) Today I have another “no horse pucky” story. It didn’t happen to me. It happened to my friend, but she is a reliable source. Anyway, you can’t make this pucky up.
So years ago we lived in a neighborhood that was close by to a ranch that was filled with all sorts of exotic animals. This ranch had giraffes and zebras and even a hippo. The ranch ran a hayride through the middle of their land and as you were sitting on the back of this trailer being pulled by a pick-up truck, many of the animals would come up to the people on the hayride looking to be fed. This ranch was a fun attraction and our kids would have school field trips there fairly often. My friend was chaperoning one of those field trips and she was wearing antique Cartier earrings gifted to her by her grandmother. Now you may be asking yourself, why was my friend wearing Cartier earrings on a hayride? Well, she’s British. They’re very proper. Have you ever seen the royals look anything but fabulous??
Anyway, my friend was on the hayride and the truck stopped and the animals came charging up to the ride, looking to be fed. There was one ostrich on the ranch and the ostrich was particularly friendly. My friend was excited to see the ostrich and to be able to look up close at its lovely, long eyelashes. As she was lovingly gazing at the enormous bird, it must of caught a glint of something shiny on my friends ear, and that glisten must of looked delicious to the ostrich. Out of nowhere, the ostrich plucked an antique Cartier earring off of my friend’s ear and ate it.
My friend was devastated. These were antique Cartier earrings inherited from her grandmother! So, she implored the owners of the ranch to help her. They understood her plight. The lucky thing is that there was only one ostrich on the ranch. So one of the ranch workers kept a dutiful eye on the ostrich for several days. Sure enough, after a few days, the Cartier earring reappeared in the ostrich’s pucky and was reunited with my friend who has the earrings to this day. True story. Feel free to giggle and pass it on.
