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By Tamara Rodrigues
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Irvin was driving a one of the company cars, a small white station wagon. He had to head out to a rural area and complete some preventative maintenance at the site. It was a typical mid-summer North Carolina day. He parked the car, decided to leave the windows down and went inside.
After being in the building for about twenty minutes, the horn started beeping in his car. “I’m here all alone. I’ve gotta be hearing things.” The noise stopped.
A few minutes later, the horn began honking again. It stopped. “It must be an electrical thing.”
The beeping began again, this time constant. “Okay guys, this isn’t funny. Knock it off,” he shouted thinking it was his coworkers messing with him.
He finished his maintenance, locked the building door and turned around to see a herd of cows licking his car. They were in the windows, licking the horn, licking the glass, slobbering all over the roof and hood.
At first he was dumbfounded. “How am I going to get them off?”
“Mooove, Moooove,” he said as he shoed them with his notepad. “Mooove, Mooooove.”
The cows began a chorus of “moooooo, moooooo, mooooo.”
Every time Irvin told them to move, they mooed back at him. This continued for several minutes. It finally dawned on him; the cows thought he was talking to them. He got closer to them and told them to get out of the way. He kept shoeing them, they kept licking and mooing.
“Why are they licking my car? Why won’t they move away?” As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he realized what was going on. The cows thought his little white car was a salt lick.
“How am I going to tell Joe about this? No one will believe me all this mess is from cows licking.” He shoed and pushed and cooed until he cleared a path to drive out of there.
He drove off and when far enough away, he got out and surveyed his vehicle. Everything was just coated in cow saliva and cow pies where on the bumpers. The inside of the car was coated with dripping goo. He drove straight to a car wash and tried to clean it off. No amount of water was cleaning the coating off of it. He was going to have to scrub it.
He drove back to the office and told the boss and his coworkers what had happened. All of them were doubled over, grabbing their sides, laughing.
Shortly after, Irvin took a couple weeks of vacation. While he was gone, his coworkers had ordered a customized backup alarm that initiated when the car was put into reverse.
Irvin came back from vacation and was heading to his car. Ten people crowded around the little window to watch as Irvin got in the vehicle. Irvin put the car in reverse and heard an odd sound. He got out and walked around the car. He got back in, heard the sound again. Put the car in park and walked around again. Looking under the car to see what could be making that noise.
The ten in the window were doubling over again.
Irvin was back in the car and put it in reverse, backed up and then drove away.
The coworkers figured he had figured it out. The backup alarm sounded, “mooove, moooove.”
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