When the Cows Come Home at ITF
A few days ago at the Den of Iniquity I worked with my buddy Juan. We usually don’t work together, but that day he was helping up in cabinet set so we were in the same vicinity. Unlike many of my Mexican co-workers, Juan speaks excellent English.
We were discussing our quota for the day, and he asked me how many more units we had left to do. I replied that I didn’t know, but there were enough left that we’d be at work till the cows came home.
“Till the cows come home! What does that mean?!!” He laughed.
Never thought about that before. I said, I don’t know, a long time!
I don’t know what that means. I guess the farmer turns the cows out and they don’t come home until the end of the day maybe.
The cows eventually did come home, but it seems they’ve been staying out longer every day.
6 Responses
October 13th, 2005 at 10:20 am
I have thought of that before. Do cows get lost easily? Are they just slow thinkers, thus slow moving? If the farmer knows it’ll take forever for the cows to come home, why does he let them go like that? There must be someone who knows these things.
-Kaitlyn
October 13th, 2005 at 10:37 am
Chickens also come home, although it’s to roost (which cows around here seem incapable of doing) and it has a different meaning.
One similarity between chickens and cows that have finally and safely made it home is that they do so at dusk or thereabouts.
So, theoretically, how long a time period “till the cows come home” is depends on the meaning of is. No, wait; that’s a different situation altogether (actually, more related to chickens coming home to roost).
Anyway, in theory, how long it is till the cows come home depends on the time of day in which said event is referenced.
Whatever the case, cows around here are also (seemingly, anyway) not given to much theorizing either.
For me, I have no beef with bovines coming home. It’s chickens headed for the roost that give me pause.
October 13th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
In reflection, I realize that cows don’t want to come home so that’s why they move so slowly and take so long. Why don’t they want to come home? One word: hamburgers
-Kaitlyn
October 14th, 2005 at 11:17 pm
Uh, yeah. You all are, um…interesting. My cows always stay home where they belong. My cat doesn’t. I had to STAND on a gate yesterday IN THE DARK and pull it off of a roof. Yeah. We were both freaking out. I don’t like heights, and yes, standing on top of a gate IS heights!
ag
October 15th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
And no one is impressed that I risked my life for a cat?
I get no appreciation around here.
Ag
February 24th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
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