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As a rule, I don’t give pallets much thought. But in the comments section of my last post, I found myself in not one, but two conversations about their many and varied uses.
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Was the universe trying to tell me something? I shall relate my tale of woe, dear reader, and you can be the judge.
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Let me first declare that we are a multi-pallet household. There must be fifty of them scattered about the place. Some arrived with the solar panels, others with our flat-pack dome, and the rest? Who knows. One does not buy pallets. Rather, as one of my commenters remarked, one liberates them or they simply appear.
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Today was gusty. My brother, who has an uncanny knack for doing the right thing at precisely the wrong time, decided it was the perfect moment to haul one of our many pallets down the garden to reinforce the chicken defences.
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I watched from the kitchen window as he hoisted it onto the wheelbarrow, where it teetered ominously while he trundled it toward the anti-chicken wall, trailed by 18 inquisitive hens.
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Then, without warning, a sharp gust caught the pallet. It lifted into the air, hovered for a moment like something out of Poltergeist, and then crashed back to earth, landing squarely on one of the chickens, killing her instantly.
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A selection of my brother's aesthetically pleasing pallet constructions
I ask you, what are the odds of death by pallet? They must be trillions to one... and yet, there she was. Gone.
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Omg!!! Remember Chicken Little? She was right! Not that I'm making light - that poor chook, and you must have been horrified!
I'm also reminded of this...
Hahaha. That's brilliant! I'm laughing through my tears;)
One of my faves. Sorry about your chook. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it all day.
What gets me is the split second timing. My friend was killed in a hit-and-run last year, and I can’t help thinking that if she’d stopped to tie her lace or grab a drink, she'd still be alive.
Oh goodness I'm sorry to hear that. I know it's easy to think of all of those sliding door moments, especially in grief. ❤️❤️❤️ There seems no rhyme nor reason to these things.
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Pallets are great! They are also often given away for entirely free! Lots of businesses like shipping companies will give them away because it’s cheaper than trying to recycle them. Nifty stuff! Sorry for the fatality though!
I must say, I'll never again look upon pallets with the same affection I once did!:)
Wtf poor chicken! How unlucky she must be for a death like that
What about poor me? I'm traumatised!:)
Yeah I guess it wasn't a good spectacle...
You wouldn't believe me, but, people here do buy pallets. It's true sometimes they just come with something, but there's a strong and deep habit here of splitting things that come together to sell them separately.
That unfortunate Postergeist event the ended up taking a chicken's life is quite curious.
Chickens here are lost these days, dead or alive. They're wanted dead though, in packages, so, in the midle of my condolences thoughts for the chicken family, I have to admit a fried chiken plate crossed my mind.,:)
Oh I would! You look to me like a very honest fellow indeed:.
Now that I give it a second thought, maybe pallets have been extinguishing cause of the high demand of wood to cook in the city. Well, in the whole country except for the capital, but in the city nearby trees can't be cutted down and pallets were at reach. Chickens on the other hand...
I don't know...maybe they migrated as everyone else is doing.
Perhaps there's a law that says that chickens can only be where there are plenty pallets.
Damn!!!
I don't believe a word of it!:)
It's ok. We, who live it, neither can believe it.:)
Hahah. Good comeback!:)
Danke my dear!:)
Dreadful! I wasn't ready for that ending. Poor chick. Poor you. I think your brother must have had a few rough moments when he realized what he caused.
Sorry...I can't laugh at this one 😪 I think all that talk about pallets must have been an omen. Too bad you don't have a soothsayer who could have warned you about the signs.
He says he’s traumatised. I only saw it from the window, and that was bad enough. He's never really got over stepping on one of his hamsters when he was about six.
It was a bit uncanny though, having those conversations about pallets and then… that.
🤣🤣🤣 what kind of wind are yee getting up there in Thurles? Question, did you have roast spatchcock chicken that night?
Thurles? I think you need to employ a better private eye:) And you know I only eat carrots!
Oh dear! As someone who once had someone's cute little dog run directly under the back wheel of my motorcycle as I was going to work, all you can say is that at least it was a quick death
Ouch! It's hard to trump that.
Sorry about the chicken, that's shocking.
Thanks. Such a strange thing to happen after we'd been discussing pallets.
I missed the pallet conversation. However, it is probably no co-incidence that there was a pallet incident. Pity about the chicken though. Nevertheless, it is kind of spooky that a pallet fell on the chicken.
You do make great use of pallets - they are very handy. I have only 4 of them to protect my decking where I have my garden. The grow bags/pots sit on them in my small garden.
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