8th
December
2023
A need to see inside
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Going to work with a parent comes with special occasions. Like the day a babysitter is not available. In my case when I was still very young as in able to give my age using the digits on one hand I went to work with my father. Some details are needed here. My father worked for the railway. In a railway station. In fact, from my point of view it was his railroad station. And when your father works for the railway he can do things like taking you to work because the station is a large but safe place. On this particular day I was allowed to sit in the waiting room. Almost as if I was waiting for a train although I wasn’t. My father had other tasks to do and I had the run of the room. Now, parents always tell their children to behave that is a very open-ended order. So within the waiting room there were parcels because railways delivered both people and product. This time around there was a large cardboard box on the floor and it made noises. For a small child interesting noises. Almost as if there was something alive inside. There were air holes on the side of the box and I could see inside and what to my wondering I did appear but tiny peeping chicks. Something ordered from elsewhere by a local farmer. Too many for me to count given my limited knowledge of mathematics. More than five to be sure. And so I lifted the cover from the box. Small chickens understand freedom and they all headed for the hills. Or for safety underneath a waiting room bench. I cannot tell you that this all went well for me. My father was busy and having to check on the getaway patterns of dozens of small animals was not on his list of things to do that day. We changed stations a few months later and the next time around there was a freight shed. So I never got another chance to learn about how chickens try to run away
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