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Chickens!
Aye aye I know, that's a pretty common one these days, however I have a reason.
When I was a wee tot (about 3) my folks used to keep twenty chickens in a pen in the garden. The poor bastards had all had their wings clipped of course so that they couldn't fly away. The result of this was that, when we let them out to have the run of the garden, they charged about like demented jet pilots with their wings in the air trying to take off. And if I happened to be in the garden at this point, for some reason they would always fucking well charge directly at me. All of them.
I think what probably got to me most was the look in their eyes..y'know..that weirdly intense chickeny stare. Easy for a 3 year old to misinterpret as cold hard malice...
(Sun 13th Apr 2008, 22:12, More)