Badger Latch
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Badger Latch
The Adventures of Mule Boy
Half Donkey. Quarter Horse. All American 9 year old Boy.
His father was a mule. His mother was a freak.
Just when his mother didn't think she could possibly drink too much during a Spring Break trip to Panama, nine months later… Mule Boy had arrived.
Living in a single parent household can be tough… Unless of course, your son is half mule… Mule Boy doesn't just "do his chores," he cultivates the garden, grazes to keep the lawn looking trim, and hauls just about anything without even thinking about issuing a complaint.
With all of this great and productive work being done, it's hard to believe that just a few years back, his mother considered euthanizing Mule Boy based on his oft-ridiculed muleish appearance. "It just wasn't fair to him," she felt. He didn't belong on the playground, and he couldn't quite meet the demands of the local Amish Mule Handlers. His mother appeared to be in a desolate situation with a depressed misfit.
Luckily for Mule Boy though, this would not be his fate. His mother had deep compassion for her partially equine son. She never had the heart put him down. And as soon as he had grown into a rather reliable labor hand, his value was soon realized as being an asset to the household.
Things were smooth-sailing for a while. The chores were always done on time, the work ethic of Mule Boy softening the hearts of many, and the hard manual labor being second nature for the hybrid of a hybrid.
Mule Boy lived in a small rural town isolated from much of the busy outside world. He and his mother both did well dealing with the small-town small-minded scrutiny that naturally arose when a local woman gave birth to a boy with a mule head. But just as it seemed that this fact of life was behind them, there was another bump in the road. This bump in the road was Badger Man.
While Mule Boy had handled his perceived shortcoming with grace, Badger Man had coped in the complete opposite manner. Badger Man was bitter at the world, and spent his life sharing his misery with every person that he could. Many found it hard to blame Badger Man for completely being an asshole, since when it comes to Badgers, they are basically the asshole of the Animal kingdom.
He was narcissistic, buff, and ferocious. And on one unfortunate day, he crossed paths with Mule Boy. Their first meeting went something like this: "Hey Mule Boy!" "Yeah, I'm talking to you… you donkey-eared gimp!"… Mule Boy merely retorted with "sheee-honk!" And as you probably guessed, Mule Boy continued to get badgered. Fearing his life, and outwardly displaying his immense meekness, Mule Boy took the high road, and kept distancing himself from the conversation. Badger Man soon found out that he had a tough time picking a fight with someone who didn't really show any interest, and he eventually capped the altercation with an emotionally penetrating insult and then went along his way.
Mule Boy took the insults just like any 9 year old would. His modest mule temperament is probably what saved him that day, but his young, undeveloped psyche was crushed.
Later on that night, he grunted and whistled the entire story to his mother, and true to form, his mother displayed limitless compassion in comforting Mule Boy with his sorrow. She explained to Mule Boy that there are many types of "people" in this world. Some are of the modest and golden-hearted nature of Mule Boy. Yet, sadly enough, many are of the flamboyant, selfish, and mean-spirited disposition of Badger Man. But no matter how much he has gotten you down, he in fact, is an even bigger disappointment to himself.
The fact that Mule Boy's mother had referred to him as a "person" made him feel welcomed, and it further helped him to buy into the philosophy she was teaching.
As Mule Boy's tears began to dry, his mother prepared a warm bed of hay for him. She refilled his water bucket, and then as she guided him to bed for the night, gave him a loving pat on the ribcage and then quietly latched the stable door.
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