IDENTITY CRISIS
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Farmer
noun 1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.
2. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.
3. a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a fixed price.
4. a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of retaining them.
I haven't posted a definition in a while. This one is a word that troubles me since I have come to be indentified as one and have even learned to call myself one.
Too bad it isn't a word that commands a bit more respect. Definition number two is partiuclarly disturbing but better than the other listings I found that included the lovely descriptive "bumpkin". Yup, that would be me alright. Number three is interesting in that it refers to a fixed price arrangement that is garnered for the lowely task of caring for childeren or the poor (what about the poor children or the poor neglected farm animals?)
I think I should stop now. I may become angry and irrational and be mistaken for a yokel.
I guess I was very wrong when I decided that farmers are the folks who bring us food. Can't live without 'em.
What do you think?
written at 8:58 p.m.
November 13, 2006
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