The Goose and the Gas Man

The story of the goose and the gas man, told by Ronnie.  I've heard before that after he left the gas station Grandpa Sobotka was laughing so hard about this that he had to pull the truck over several times on the trip home.  :D  This is one of my personal favorites.

Growing up we had a pair of old geese, and an old goose and especially the gander, will get a little possessive and territorial.  And this old goose got to where he’d chase people, he wouldn’t hurt you much, he’d pinch you on the heels with his beak a little bit.  If you’d run from him he’d chase you.

 Anyway, Grandpa told us kids one time, “If the old goose gets after you, you reach down and you grab him by the neck.”  And a goose’s neck is the toughest thing in the world, you can’t hurt a goose’s neck, in fact I’ve seen Grandpa pick him up by the neck and shake him and put him back down, but that was our defense against the goose, was to grab him by the neck.  One day Ed and Fred was out there in the garage playing around and the gas man come to bring the tractor gas.  He backed up out there, and he pumped the gas into the gas barrel, and he started towards the garage to put the ticket in there on the shelf, and the goose got after the gas man.

They was a running around the tractor lot out there, and the old goose was a honking and a flopping his wings and making an awful commotion.  And them two boys stuck there heads out of the garage and they started to yelling “Grab him by the neck, grab him by the neck!”  And the gas man he run back to his truck and went back to town and didn’t leave no ticket.

Well a few days later Grandpa went to town and he stopped by the station to pay the bill.  The gas man says “George them boys wasn’t very nice to me the other day.”  Grandpa said, “Well what happened?” The gas man told him the story and then he said, “And them boys started yelling for that goose to grab me by the neck!”