Exaggeration

“EXAGGERATION”

A young man who left his home in Texas at an early age, finally purchased his own ranch in Oklahoma.  He invited his father out for a visit, and took him on a tour of the property.

Driving along in the son's pickup truck, a jack rabbit hopped onto the road in front of them.

The son stopped the truck to let the rabbit pass, and the father queried:  “What in tarnation is that?”

The son incredulously replied, “That's a jackrabbit, Dad, what did you think it was?”  The father shrugged and said, “We grow’em a lot bigger'n back home in Texas.”

So they went on and a little farther on they came to a few buffalo roaming the range.  The son stopped the truck and the father again said in a puzzled tone, “What are those?”

The son hesitantly said, “Those are buffalo, Dad; you gotta be kiddin me, you really don't recognize them?”  The father replied “Well, I guess they're kinda familiar—it's just that we grow 'em so much bigger back in Texas.”

The son, a bit disgruntled, drove on in silence.  At length they approached a low part in the road with marshy wetlands on either side.  A large snapping turtle lumbered onto the road.  The father peered intently at the creature and said “Now what one earth is that thing!?”

Without missing a beat, the son replied, “wood tick!”