(Book 2!)
"Every civilization has a rite of passage where boys become men.
American Indian braves had to kill a buffalo. Africans had to kill a lion. And on Nebraska Street, you had to pick up a horny toad with your bare hand.
Even if you'd been told a thousand times that horny toads didn’t bite or sting, when you stood over one for the first time, the last thing in the world you wanted to do was grab it.
Sure they were small, but they were still stinkin' dinosaurs, complete with horns and scales and weird eyeballs and tongue cannons!
Who could say for sure that they didn’t have some kind of prehistoric poison that would kill you dead?
But eventually you just had to just suck it up -- if you wanted to be a man -- so you'd reach down over a horny toad as he was eyeing up a dinner of red ants.
Then you’d spread your fingers wide and ever-so-carefully clamp down on the outside of his body -- ready to drop him and run like crazy if he looked like he was going to sting or bite or shoot fire out of his butt…"
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