Monday, October 01, 2007

Meat

I cannot call this anything but a story, because Robert told it to me and he had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else.  And as I heard it, I couldn’t help but sense an inevitability that made me think that maybe I’d even heard this story before.  However, I can’t bring myself to Snopes it.  I want to believe it, even a little more than I want to believe that it never really happened.  So without any claim to veracity, here’s what I heard:

An old Chinese lady holding a live chicken waited to board the 30 Stockton.  “Lady,” snapped the driver as he pulled up but refused to let her board, “you can’t take live chickens on the bus!”

She snapped its neck and calmly boarded. 

Moral: Though there’s no I in team, it’s completely filled with meat.