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Traded a spy novel for a chicken care book, now my flock judges me
At the last swap I had two options: a beat-up Le Carré or a 1980s guide to raising backyard hens. I grabbed the chicken book because the cover had a rooster wearing a tiny hat. Read it in two nights, and now I actually know what 'broody' means. My neighbors think I'm weird for naming my birds after thriller authors. Anyone else trade something totally random and end up down a weird rabbit hole?
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terryw679d ago
So you traded a spy novel for a book about chickens and now you're reading about broodiness and naming birds after authors. Big deal. I mean, what's the actual payoff here? You got some fun facts about hens and a rooster with a hat, but you lost out on a book with real tension, double agents, and actual plot twists. Chickens are just creatures that eat, poop, and lay eggs. You can learn everything you need to know about them in about ten minutes on YouTube, not a whole book. And now your neighbors think you're the weird bird guy on the block, so congrats on that. Sounds like a downgrade to me, unless your flock is somehow gonna start writing their own spy novels.
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