“It takes no brains to be a farmer,” pontificated City Mouse. “Anyone could do it.”
“Yes?” replied Country Mouse. “Tell me, what would you do if you were faced with a months-long drought? Or a plague of locusts? Or daily dust storms? Tornadoes? Endless rain? Broken machinery? Disease spreading in the wheat or corn? Cows drying up, unable to feed their young? Chickens that don’t lay? Hogs that sicken and die?”
“Easy!” puffed City Mouse. “I’d simply go to the nearest grocery store and buy what I need.”
Country Mouse grinned, shook his head, and went back to work.
Just Writing! 
Sounds like City Mouse has it sussed!
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Until the grocery store runs out of food 🙂
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I remember a conversation with someone almost exactly like that. The solution to hunger, he asserted, was more supermarkets
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My husband was talking with an elderly woman. We were having to be careful of water usage because we’d gone some time without rain. She wasn’t worried. She said, “Well, we don’t drink water. We drink coffee.”
Seriously.
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Two different worlds, and never the twain shall meet! Nice one Linda.
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Where does milk come from?
Tescos.
Good stuff, shows the stark differences between city and country
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Dear Linda,
City Mouse doesn’t have a clue, does he? Cute story. All it needs is a few illustrations. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Good fun, although on a serious note it does highlight the problems we have as a consumer society that has become disconnected with the reality of the world!
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City Mouse has no idea where things come from–a very apt story, Linda. 🙂
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Whether it’s in the country or the city, there’s no doubt the mice are getting into it.
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🙂
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Sadly there are people who truly believe that
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Cute story with a deeper meaning. Well done, Linda.
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I think he’s banging his head against a brick wall here. None so blind as…
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Yes. It’s just amazing, though, that a multi-billionaire like Bloomsburg is so dumb about the importance of farming, and about how technically challenging it has become.
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Most of us city folk could never make the cut, Linda!
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I’m neither a farmer not a city girl. A nice rural community is my home. But I can tell a cow from a bull, and hot air from truth 🙂
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And the country mouse would go nuts trying to cope in the city rat race.
Your story reminds me of the “Fresh air child” from a city tenement slum who thought eggs grew on trees. 😉
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Thing is, the country mouse has more sense than to try to tell city mouse how to get along in the city 🙂
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Oh, that City Mouse. He appears to have forgotten where the food in the supermarkets is coming from 🙂
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If he ever knew. I don’t know what his circumstances were as a child, but it’s been a long time since my City Mouse had to worry about where his food is coming from.
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That’s just about the size of it too. Your story reminds me of that country song, “I’m Busted.”
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I’ll have to look it up 🙂
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I just posted the Ray Charles version for you. It’s been covered with more country backup music, but the lyrics are the same.
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oops, just looked it up. It’s just “Busted”
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🙂
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City Mouse should be renamed Idiot Mouse. Such ignorance, but his life style / upbringing is to blame. Might be a politician prerequisite 😀.
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I could maybe give City Mouse that kind of grace when he was a child, but an adult should know better.
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Wonderfully done, Linda. So obtuse, “people” can be!!
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Even if they squeak and have long tails.
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City mouse has no clue. Great story. Definitely shows the differences between city dwellers and country folk. Of course, then there’s a mid ground. I call them villagers… small, rural farm towners with just enough city in them to forget what they learned on the farm.
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Well, I know few city folks who think like that. Great story!
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Thank you 🙂
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What a creative and clever and fun spin on this pic.
Nice work.
Nothing mouse-y about it!!!! LOL.
Randy
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Thanks so much 🙂
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i guess that’s one way of looking at it. 🙂
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A case of Ignorance is bliss? he should watch the old show Green Acres just for laughs, while those of us in the country break our backs to feed him.
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Dave, you are right! Farmers feed the world. Billionaires pay millions of dollars on their own campaigns, including up to $85,000 Mr. Bloomburg pays his staffers every year, while other candidates can’t afford so much. Lesser mortals are losing their staffers to the very attractive salaries Bloomburg can pay. We are in a mess, indeed.
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This made me laugh but at the same time it points out a very serious issue, some city people have lost all understanding of where it all comes from. Teacher: Where do eggs come from? Pupil: The supermarket.
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Exactly. I read, years ago, about a young bride who was horrified to find that in order to prepare her husband’s favorite meal she would have to deal with cutting up a whole, raw chicken! She’d never even thought before about where the chicken came from 🙂
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I totally believe you because the TV asked some children where bread, milk and eggs come from and they all said the supermarket except one who was sort of getting there but thought it was the cows that give us eggs 😁
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🙂
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Love the description, great piece.
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Thanks 🙂
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A timely piece, Linda. Your country mouse shows a lot of wisdom in not arguing. He’ll have the last laugh in a pandemic when the supermarkets are empty. Personally I’m in awe of the expertise, ingenuity, strength and sheer physical endurance of good farmers.
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Yes, me too. I grew up around farmers. My dad was the pastor of a small church in farm country when I was in high school, and I can tell you that the farmers are exactly as described. I also believe it is significant that those farmers tended to be convinced of the existence of God 🙂
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So much truth in so few words. Good job.
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Thanks so much 🙂
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I’m glad there are farmers so that I can go to the grocery store! I wasn’t cut out to be a farmer, but I sure do apppreciate them every time I walk through those sliding glass doors!
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Me too, Russell. I think farmers are highly under-rated!
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LOL…oblivious! That’s a frequent state for more than just mice 😉
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Ha! City dwellers do tend to take their food supply for granted, don’t they? Good use of humour to drive the point home.
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Thanks 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Oh city mouse, you know nothing… different worlds, I doubt country mouse knows how to survive in the big city either. Great story.
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And God made a Farmer Mouse. 😀
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Being a farmer can be challenging!
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It certainly is. They have to be knowledgeable about many things.
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The rural idyll! It’s lovely to see though in these times when everyone is shut in. Thanks x
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And I wrote this back on Feb. 19, before the complete quarantine.Didn’t know I was being prophetic 🙂
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I know. It’s crazy how last month seems like another time in history. Nobody can get their head round it really.
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