Another Proud Hunter’s Moment
Next week will be a busy one for Mark. Mark has been working on the 24th Annual Outdoor Sports Show for the past few months and it starts next weekend, January 26 & 27, 2008. You can read more about it here or directly at the City of Hammond Outdoor Sports Show.
Since this year’s show is approaching I am haunted by what happened to me last year…
Mark called to let me know Buckmasters would be at the show scoring deer heads and if I would bring in his monster. Immediately I start to sweat thinking of my travel with Bambi. It was one of those wifely duties I had no interest in fulfilling.
Oh, the thought of it. Can I be trusted to take it off the wall without dropping it? It’s heavy. I will have to wrap it in a blanket so that I don’t break or scratch any part of it. I will then have to put it in my car and angle it just right so that other drivers are not able to see me and my passenger, Bambi. I will then have to walk in the show, carrying this monster, in front of a bunch of men. I can’t.
I called Mark back whining that this will be difficult for me. It is heavy, I don’t want to drop his precious love nor do I want to walk in the show with it in front of a bunch of men. Now if I were single, that might be something I would consider. I could hear them now “Man, look at that rack.” Ok, stop dreaming…
Mark kept trying to convince me that I will be fine. I kept rolling my eyes, sighing, ready to firmly say “No”. But instead I firmly said “Meet me at the back door because I am not walking in with Bambi in front of a bunch of men.”
I get to the show, pull around to the back door and there they stood - Mark and a group of men anxiously awaiting its arrival.
Now that I look back on it all, even if I would have showed up in a bikini and heels, they still wouldn’t have noticed me.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Not only do you have the smallest butt but you have the smallest rack of the family too….there’s no doubt it would be bambi’s rack they would be noticing.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:34 am
now now girls play nice
January 18th, 2008 at 8:38 am
That’s too funny. I’d bet you’re right though.
Hunters do tend to get distracted when there’s a nice deer mount around.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:17 am
looks like a man that has his priorities straight.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:12 am
oh, oh…now your family is hanging around… just to mess with your head!
This sounds kind of like walking naked in front of the big screen TV during play off hockey… “You’re blocking the replay..!” …..I knew I should have at least had a 6 pack of beer in one hand… then it would have been okay….
January 18th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Kristine, yes they do get distracted.
Rex, we will make sure he has his priorities straight this week and take his own deer in.
Vee, yes my sisters love to point out negative things about me. I think it is jealousy.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Oh, I think the guys would have noticed you in a bikini and heels…
they would have noticed that obviously that attire helped you get a MONSTER, and the next thing you would have seen is all of them in the women’s section of Cabela’s trying bathing suits on and attempting to figure out why it works.
I can hear them now -
“the does must feel safer with a womanly figure in the stand”
“the bikini must break up a hunter’s outline better than Mossy Oak or Realtree”
“is there carbon in this thing?”
“if I wear this thing, maybe I AM the decoy”
“with all of the money she saved on hunting outfits, she must have been able to buy a better, flatter shooting rifle or faster bow”
“the other club members were probably too busy looking at her to see the monster come out… I think I will take my wife to camp next year”
“all the flesh probably blinded him, giving her that needed extra second to get off a shot. My winter-white beer belly should really do the trick”
January 19th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
wow. Jody your site always has some interesting dialogues going:) It is just too good.
I do think that Mark has his priorities right. Wait a minute….I’m not sure. Bikini? Deer Mount? That is a hard one. I’ll get back to ya on that one.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Jeff, that is too funny!
Arthur, I think most hunters would lean towards deer mount.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:30 am
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