layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: middle --- # Joking and Humour ### Long Quotes --- ### Quote 1 --- ### “One thing that made me feel good was a sense of humour. For example, some farmers had a very good sense of humour, some others not so much. There were one or two in particular who were known as being somewhat grumpy and after I created, not a very close relationship but a working relationship. I knew them, and they knew me. *(cont. ...)* --- ### I would have a small target that, every time I visited their farm, I would make them smile at least once. And I did. They didn’t need to laugh out loud, but they would smile about something silly or something I would say. And that made me feel good.” --- ### Quote 2 --- ### “I remember a farmer who wasn’t very bright and had this inordinately complicated way of getting cows into the crush which involved making them cross a yard into a really small opening which they never wanted to go in to and it was like watching a train crash every time and you try a couple of times to politely suggest a better way and when they’re not receptive, you just settle down and think, *(cont. ...)* --- ### we’re doing it your way, we’ll be here all day, it’s going to be really painful but you just try and see the funny side and I was thinking you should never do a TB test where the cows are more intelligent than the farmer – which seems really mean but there’s always a funny side to it.”