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Interesting evening

Soapweed

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We preconditioned another bunch of calves today, and later did some sorting getting the red calves from black cows out of the bunch. These will be sold with our other red calves. Anyway, I sorted cattle right up until four o'clock, and then had to get ready to go to Valentine to a meeting that started at 5:30. I hurriedly unsaddled, showered and shaved, and drove pretty fast. It is an hour drive to Valentine and I'd only allowed myself fifty minutes.

Halfway to Cody, as I am driving east I see a pedestrian on the north side of the road. He is talking on his cell phone and frantically trying to flag me down, even though it looks like he is hitch-hiking the other direction. I get slowed down and turn around and drive back to see what sort of problem he has encountered.

The young guy is more than a little inebriated. He jumps in the pickup with me, and pours out his sad story. It seems that he and his pregnant girlfriend, along with his girlfriend's sister and her boyfriend, had come up to this area to attend the funeral of the girls' grandfather. The other three remained sober throughout the day, but the 24-year-old boy in with me has been inbibing right along. He has gotten drunk and obnoxious, and his girlfriend's sister (who can't stand this boy anyway), has lowered the boom and kicked the young man out on the highway, in the middle of nowhere.

Our subject is beside himself with remorse. It is drawing close to dusk, and he has been abandoned without even a jacket. We drive on to Valentine, looking at each vehicle we meet, with him hoping it is his traveling companions coming back to pick him up. No luck. Alas, as we arrive in Valentine, we see their car parked at the Bunkhouse Cafe, where they had stopped for the pregnant girlfriend to visit a restroom. The girlfriend was slightly happy to see the father of her child-to-be, but the others were disgusted to see me drive up with the Obnoxious One riding in the passenger seat.

It took a lot of talking on my part, and a firm promise from the Obnoxious One, that he would not say a single word all the rest of the way back to the Omaha vicinity where they all live. If he breaks that promise, they made their own promise to once again unload him wherever destiny called. It will be interesting to see if the young man shapes up. He has potential, but it was hidden pretty deep this evening. :???:

I was nearly thirty minutes late to my meeting, but the others carried on quite well without me. :)
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Awful nice of you to give the fella a ride. They say everthang happens for a reason, maybe you were an influence on him to turn himself around and fly right. Ya just never know. But.....ya done yer good deed for the day.
 

nr

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Good deed, Soapweed. Glad it might have a happy ending.
Around here I've worried he'd be packing a gun.
 

Jinglebob

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Yup, you ol' "pickup artist." :shock: :lol:

And remember. "No good deed goes unpunished." :wink:

If the guy is around when the baby is born, they will probably name the little tyke "Soapweed". :lol:
 

Soapweed

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Jinglebob said:
Yup, you ol' "pickup artist." :shock: :lol:

And remember. "No good deed goes unpunished." :wink:

If the guy is around when the baby is born, they will probably name the little tyke "Soapweed". :lol:

I kinda doubt it. :wink: :)

He asked me if he could smoke in my pickup. I told him normally I would say no, but in his case I would say "yes" because it looked like he really needed a cigarette. He had two before we got to Valentine, and I was driving pretty fast. :wink: Now the pickup stinks. :cry:

The kid seemed good deep down. His lifestyle and attitude were sure a detriment to any current happiness.
 

Mrs.Greg

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That was very nice of you Soapweed.Who knows how that young man felt...maybe funerals are very hard on him and was just the way he delt with it.Trust me...he will remember your kindness :)
 

nr

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Just curious, what was Plan B if he'd aimed a gun at you?

Reminded me of an inmate at the women's prison who looked as mild as a milkmaid, sweet blue-eyed blond, great smile and sense of humor. After a few visits I learned she was in for car-jacking plus possession of a deadly weapon. She had a true hard luck story but was a violent one, none the less. Always makes me uneasy thinking about picking up hitchhikers though part of me feels it is the kind thing to do.
 

Faster horses

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You may never know what one act of kindness does for someone, Soapweed. You did a good deed by picking him up zzzzzzzzzzzexcept for the smoke smellin your pickup.
(However, you might be lucky that that is all that he left there). :wink:

Would I have picked him up? Probably not.

But I believe things happen for a reason, and you get an "atta boy"
on this one.
 
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