I was close to a bison, but on a fenced walk overpass.
That thing was monstrous. I would never willingly walk anywhere near one.
I also rode a bull…once.
I’m a city boy but when I was young rode a horse a couple of times at a summer camp.
When I was in my twenties I took one , or rather it took me at a full gallop.
It only takes a second feeling the power of an animal, a fellow member of the mammal family that size to understand where you stand in the muscle food chain of life.
Had bison chili @ Old Faithful Lodge once. Absolutely delicious.
To make it worse, she was later bored by A. Gore.
We were about 50 feet from one last month. We kept a fence and a SUV between us at all times.
I also rode a bull…once.
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I did too!
Until it got too expensive to keep feeding quarters into the coin slot on the one at the supermarket.