What Do You Have...

...When a 13 year old boy is almost 6 foot tall?

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A rambunctious gangly kid...

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With

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What happens when said kid and his rowdy cousins stuff M-80’s

up a car's tailpipe and take off running?

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An accident looking to happen!

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Left leg at the knee does a 360° rotation as said kid

tumbles down an embankment.

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#1 Surgery!

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What happens when said kid is 14 and decides to out race

traffic down a hill on his bicycle?

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A semi truck gets in his path and sends him sailing!

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Left leg at the knee is bent and the foot now lays on said kid's chest.

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#2 Surgery!

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What happens when said kid turns 15 and decides to play football,

hoping to entice his Dad for some attention?

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Run like a long legged kid should,

onto the playing field at the start of the first game of the year!

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Left leg at the knee buckles and foot now lays aside said kid's hip.

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#3 Surgery!

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What happens when said kid becomes a grown man

and thinks nothing can stop him in his tracks?

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Not even an ornery Shetland Pony getting a “pedicure”.

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Cowboy Wife hears a crunch and a click from the Left leg at the knee,

and an “Oh Sh**” from said kid - turned Farrier's lips as he becomes immobile in a knee scrunched position

under an extremely delighted Shetland Pony’s belly.

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#4 Surgery!

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What happens 25 years later, when said kid, said farrier,

said grown man-Cowboy cannot make the trek up to the house~

Because Left leg at the knee is locked in a 45° angle back?

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There is a lot of grumbling, groaning, whistling and hollerin'!

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Where is that dern'd Woman he calls his Cowboy Wife?

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She is NOT hearing anything, or even worrying about anything!

She has her tunes playing as she works on her projects,

~~happily indoors!

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Glancing out the window, said Cowboy Wife sees a figure

crouched and crawling in the dirt.

She thinks about getting the shotgun; an intruder seems to be lurking!

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Where is her Cowboy anyway?

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She heads for the door, grabs the shotgun along the way,

steps out onto the porch and fixes to take aim... *wink..
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“Geez Woman!! ..Whatcha doin'? ..

Where have you been?”

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What happens when Dr. takes his first peek at the

Left leg at the knee without even a touch?
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“There ain’t nothing I can do for you!”
“Here’s an Orthopaedic referral!”
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What happens when Orthpaedic Doc walks into the room
after looking at X-Rays of Left leg at the Knee and says

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“Well Cowboy, you are BALD!” ??
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Cowboy Wife giggles and cries out..“Duh!”

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Cowboy chuckles and takes his hat off to say,

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“How did you know that by looking at my knee x-ray?”
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Doc laughs too!
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Then Doc frowns.
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“Your Left leg at the knee…It is balder than a billiard ball!”

“It is even Balder than your head!”

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Doc Continues..

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“You have less than zero cartilage,

you have nothing at all left in your left knee!!”
“You don’t even have a legal amount of bone…”
“You’ve been running bone on bone…you have no tread left!”
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#1 Total Knee Replacement!

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~~~~~~screeeeeeetch!

Halt~~~~~~~~~

*** We say WHOA! ***

....Let's back up here....

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“Sorry, Doc!” .. “We are out of here!”

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Cowboy and Cowboy Wife say in unison!
Cowboy makes his final plea...

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“Give me a shot of some magical concoction to get me by!”
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please.......

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Walking hand in hand from the dreaded confines of the truth,

turning to each other, Cowboy and Cowboy Wife smile,

saying together ..

"In His Dreams!!!"

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Shaking the dust from their minds,

cinching up their boot strings,

and wrapping another layer of tough leather around their resolve...

Cowboy and Cowboy Wife climb on their horse,

gather up the reins to their life...

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....ride off into the sunset!

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Tomorrow will be just another day...

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in the life...

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