That Horse Has Five Legs

The zoo has been the headlines lately with the unfortunate killing of a person by a escaped tigress. But let's move on to what is most important to me and it is my life.
When I was in grammar school(School#15 in Iselin N.J.)we would take a school trip every year. This particular year, it was the 3rd grade, our teacher Mrs Fightbahm decided to take the class to the Bronx Zoo. I had never been to a zoo so I thought this was the greatest thing since they started to put record players in cars. The big day arrived and we were all set, with our best cloths and our lunch in a paper bag, ready to go. I would be spending the day with my best friend LVB, who lived across the street from my house. and Teddy Feriolli who was my best friend in school. A little fact about Teddy and it was his claim to fame in the 3rd grade, was that he had hair under his arms. Teddy was so traumatized by this that he shaved it off. He told me that it will probably grow back thicker and he will have a tuff time putting his arms by his side. Teddy was a funny guy.

So the whole glass jumped on the bus and off we go to the Bronx. When we entered the zoo it was great with all the animals and the trees it looked, to me like a Paradise. This was how I thought the whole of the Bronx looked for years afterwards. It really amazed me, years later, to find that the Bronx was mostly covered with buildings and that's were the Yankee's played ball there.

The first exhibit we were all attracted to was the monkeys. They were all just jumping around and making all kinds of noises. I thought,cool,I like monkeys till one of them spit on Donald O'Conner's head. That was it I was done with the my love of monkeys, plus I would look at Donald differently from moment on.

Well we wondered the zoo for hours and were just about finished when we all came upon the ponys, or they could have been pygmy horses, what ever they were small. We would have just took a quick glance if it were not for one little horse with a giant erection. I mean this pony penis had to be a foot and a half long. Now this was interesting, this was funny, so naturally we all wanted to stay awhile. But our teacher wanted to move us out before we started to ask her questions about what is going on here. There was much talk of this horses pee pee thing, that's how we talked back then, but the teacher finally got us to leave. On the way back to Iselin, the bus was a buzz with giant pee pee thing talk and many giggles.

The picture is me in the third grade.