Someone saw a really weird creature just
standing there in a field and staring at them.
This creature was huge. It was
perhaps 50 times bigger than the person who saw it. It seemed to have a face a bit like a
human’s, with eyes and ears. But it was
a horrible face, long and stretched, and it moved its mouth round and round in
some odd pattern, dribbling and drooling green liquid. The huge creature had four legs. And it had an absolutely horrible smell. You could smell the thing long before you got
close.
If you had suddenly come across this weird
creature in Saitama, how would you have reacted? You probably would have screamed, and been
terrified for the rest of the day.
That’s exactly what happened to my seven
month old son when we took him to a dairy farm in Saitama. He had never seen any animals in his whole
life up until that point. Then he
smelled, and saw, a big dairy cow chewing grass and staring at him. Of course, compared to a baby, a cow is very
big. My son wouldn’t stop crying and, as
we led him away, he kept turning to look back and see if the horrible creature
was still there.
I wonder what he thought it was? If he had no idea that animals other than
humans existed, did he see it as a really ugly human? Was he worried that we were going to pass him
over for the cow to cuddle and kiss?
Or did he react like we would upon seeing
an alien – meeting something totally outside his experience and expectation and
trying desperately to figure out if it was going to attack him?
The next time we introduce an alien
creature to our son, we’ll start with a hamster and work our way up from there.
a remote location – a distant or hard to
reach place
to dribble – for liquid to fall in slow
drops or a trickle; to allow saliva to drop from one’s mouth
to drool – to allow saliva to drop
uncontrollably from one’s mouth
dairy – milk or milk products
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