Earnie At The Fair

"Earnie At The Fair"

Earnie and Gus went to the South Florida fair. They came
across a small crowd gathered around a stall and went
over to take a look. "What's going on?" Gus asked Brad
who was in the crowd. "We're watching to see if some
idiot can ride that bronco machine," he said nodding
towards a fearsome looking machine. "Nobody has
managed to stay on for the full three minutes yet, and
there's a prize of $100 for anybody who can.

"I can do that," Earnie said confidently.

"You can't," said Gus. "You'll get yourself killed if you try
and ride that thing."

"Watch this," said Earnie and climbed aboard the bronco
machine.

The machine thrashed wildly, up and down, from side to
side, around in circles but still a grim-faced Earnie clung
to its back. After two minutes the machine was bucking
almost vertically and spinning until Earnie was a blur. But
when the three minutes were up Ed was still on the machine's
back acknowledging the cheers and cries from the small
crowd. He dismounted, collected his winnings and rejoined
Gus.

"Where in hell did you learn to ride a bucking bronco like that?"
Gus wpmdered.

"Remember several months ago," Earnie said. "When your
wife had whooping cough...?"
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