| about half way through this morning's run, i saw a woman ahead of me
just standing at the corner of an elementary school front lawn. i was
wondering why she was just standing and staring with her arms crossed
until i realized that she was watching a pair of turkeys! i was running
towards this corner when i realized it was a bad idea.
as i was passing by, the turkeys took notice of me, standing about 50
ft. away. and then they started running in my direction. i picked up
speed. soon enough, they were right on my heels. Yeah i was scared.
scared they wouldn't let down their speed and that they would bite me
or something. so i stopped running, thinking maybe they'd back off and
get scared. but it didn't really work, because i felt like i was
playing a game of red light green light. as soon as i stopped
they stopped too! but when i turned away to keep running, they followed
me!
i even took the earphones out of my ears thinking that the woman on the
corner would give me some kind of direction- like "don't worry, they
don't bite!" or "keep running, they'll stop!" but no, the woman just
stared at me. so i kept running, and there they were right behind me...
for a whole block! they could have passed as my pets as if we were all
on a nice morning run together. i saw people in cars on Kirby laughing
at me-- and what a sight it must have been! all i know is that these
turkeys aren't just any small gobblers- they were long necked and
probably almost 3 feet tall.
thinking about it makes me laugh, because this is by far one of the strangest encounters i've ever had.
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