Why??!

(Photo by Richard Boettcher)

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

~Tao Lin

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My father was the kind of person who would tell you not to do things and then he would do them. For example, we had to go to the basement during tornadoes while he would stand in the carport and watch for them.

And, my oh my, the number of times he would tell us, "Don't get out of your car to take a photo of a moose! They could charge you!" And then look here at this photo of a moose he took, apparently outside of his car.

And the number of times he told us that - about not getting out of the car around a moose - well, that number was zero. However, I remain confident that if I asked him if I could get out of a car to take a photo of moose he would say, "No!" Only later would he say, "What was that moose doing in Iowa, anyway?"