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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · April 20, 2023 · P5

Copyright 2023,
Jerry Crownover
was referring to the fact that the first thing the next morn- just a broken toe. When she
the toe, next to my big toe, was ing. asked how it happened, I sim-
three times its normal width, Even the doctor seemed ply replied, “Farming is a dan-
or that the color had turned shocked the next day, as she gerous occupation.”
almost black, but my secret examined my injury. Press- Using that standard line
was out. ing around the injured area when anyone asked, my
“Yeah, I think I broke it a and hearing me mutter bad friends at the coffee shop and
couple of weeks ago.” words, she was concerned that feed store simply assumed
“Well, you need to go to the maybe my entire foot was bro- that I had been stepped on
doctor tomorrow, or you’re ken, but the subsequent X-ray by a cow, fallen off the trac-
going to lose the toe.” I called revealed that it was, in fact, continued on page 12

Farming is a dangerous oc-
cupation.
Anyone who has seen me,
in the past three months, has
either noticed my pronounced
limp, or has seen my very
attractive, hard-soled, open-
toed, Velcro-fastened shoe. I
tried to hide the injury from
my wife for the first month,
but the ever-observant nurse
caught a glimpse of my bare
foot one night and said, “What
did you do?”
I didn’t know whether she

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