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Rumble in the Rental Yard

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  "The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." - Nathaniel Hawthorne        This is a sad and shameful tale that was only told to Greg and not even discussed within the family. It involved an actual fist-fight between my Dad and an ignorant red-neck who worked at a rental yard in Paramount. This was during Christine's  equestrian days and she was serious enough to compete in horse shows with her arabian horse Narawna. My Mom was sent to this rental yard to get a horse trailer to be used in transporting the horse to a show. However, the dumb-ass who rented the trailer did not connect it properly and the jerry-rigged, half-assed job he did created a dangerous possibility of the trailer getting loose from the hitch and causing the a disastroud accident. Principal in the danger would be the towing car which was my Mom's cat where she and Chris were riding. Just the mere possibility of putting these two precious ones in harm's way cause BC ...