#chickenstuff

 Why did the chicken cross the road? I’m glad you asked! That is a very interesting story, and it begins with a chicken. Some people insist that it starts with an egg, but that is absolutely ridiculous! Why would you start with an egg? It baffles me.

 So there’s this chicken. She’s more or less your run of the mill chicken. Pecks the ground, lives in a coop. Her name is Buck-Becky and she is a chicken with a dream. A couple of years ago, when she was a chick, she saw a great, big apple tree right across the road. Apples fell from it all the time and worms would crawl inside. It was the most delicious thing she ever saw. 

 She tried to get there several times, but the loud egg thieves would always lead her back to the others. She almost gave up. Almost lost hope, but just almost. One day it dawned on her, the egg-stealers slept at night. At night she would feast on apple-fed worms. 

 That very night, she snuck out of the coop while her sisters slept. She looked around, the coast was clear. As quietly as she could, clucking only when she really, really wanted to, she got to the end of the yard. She looked across the asphalt, saw the tree and the apples. Her heart was racing! She could taste those worms already! She took a deep breath to calm her nerves and crossed the road.