Pointing It out to You!!! Rumor This
Sometimes the boys are worse than the old ladies at church, you all know the ones that sit up front looking holier than thou, with a permanent scowl etched into their faces with overdrawn eyebrows and a look than says, we don’t approve of you or your lifestyle. I always give these ladies my best smile as they look me up and down, just knowing they are convinced that they have the one-way pass to heaven, while they are thoroughly convinced that I’m going straight to hell. I’d like to think that God has a bit more wisdom, than that.
Back in 2020, we had a bit of trouble with the EPA, they took offense with one of our products and tried to shut us down. We went to court, we paid the fines, we served our time on probation. During this time, we still operated at full capacity shipping out our products to the cocking community. In actually, we lost about 14 days while my lawyer got us reopened.
Some of our loyal customers, called our still active 800 number and continued to get our excellent products and service with no hesitation, others just heard the rumor that we were out of business and for whatever reason, just kept the rumor spreading without pause or concern.
Earlier this year, I received a call from a good friend and customer that a competitor had a post that was not flattering to us or our products on his Facebook page. I signed in and called him out on it. I’m sure this competitor was embarrassed that I called him out because first he questioned who I was. After many responses from my loyal customer base telling him that I was who I claimed to be, he took his post down. That was when I decided to separate the fiction from the facts. I realized that there is an entire generation of cockers that grew up in the age of the internet, that thought we were a myth rather than an active source of advice and good gamebird products. I hired a guy to help me develop this site and decided to jump back in with both feet and “voila”, here we are a few months later loud and proud of our contributions to the gamefowl community, both past and present.
It is easy to listen to the loudmouths, hell, it’s hard to hear anything over them, but I learned long ago that there is often a story within a story about everyone and everything, and sometimes you have to dig a bit deeper to find that bit. You listen to one side and then listen to the other and somewhere in the middle is the truth. As for me, I want the truth, it’s not always pretty, it’s not always flattering, but it is the truth.
When I was a much younger, much prettier woman I would go to Sunset Recreation Club and sit with the old-timers and listen to the stories, advice, and oh yeah even the rumors. I’m sure there was some truth spoken in these sittings, but I also know there was a whole lot of tall-tale tellings going on. I have a good memory and some of these stories would show you just how civilized we have become in the past few decades. Our past was a lot more brutal than what they claim our birds are.
Now, I’m not much to carry tales, and I try real hard not to become the old woman cliche that i described above. It’s way above my pay grade to know whether I’m gonna one day find myself outside the pearly gates, I just keep doing what I can for myself, and my family, my business and my community and we will just have to see where it goes from there. So in the end Heavenbound or Hellbound, either way, I’m sure I’ll be in good company.
Keep em crowing boys.
