I think you all of you are addicts … you spend more time shooting pellet guns than you spend having sex … I would say you all have the "bug", but if I did ... you would all scrape that bug off your trigger finger, feed it talcum powder for a month, place it on a target at 200 yards and place bets as to who could shoot it first and who had the biggest puff of talcum powder smoke exiting the hapless bug.
You people remind me of a trip I took to Hungary right after I got out of service. I rented a motorcycle and thought I would scope out the local countryside. I came to a railroad crossing just as the crossing gates were coming down. While I sat idling, I was joined by a farmer with a goat which the farmer tethered to the crossing gate. A few minutes later a horse and cart came up … followed in short order by a man in a sports car. When the train roared through the crossing it startled the horse and it bit me on the arm. Now I'm not a man to be trifled with so I punched the horse in the head and consequently the horse's owner came down from the cart and started a fight with me. The horse, who was not accustomed to this kind of excitement, backed away briskly and smashed the cart into the sports car. At this point the driver of the sports car jumped out and joined into the ongoing scuffle. The farmer, who seemed to be the only one of the bunch that had his head screwed on tightly, came forward and tried to pacify me and the horse owner and the sports car driver … but as he did so, the train passed, the crossing gate rose and his goat was strangled. Forty seven years later and the insurance companies are still trying to sort out the damage claims.
However, I did learn something from that crazy day though, I no longer ride motorcycles and I don't get bit by horses … in fact I'm a confirmed pedestrian, I walk everywhere … or I guess you could say that I wait everywhere. Last week, after visiting my local "watering hole", I was just standing and waiting when a cop came up and asked me what I was doing. I told him, "I've heard that the world goes around every 24 hours and I'm just waiting on my house. Wont be long now, there goes my neighbor."