A couple of years ago I signed up for Moo-vivor.It was a small town take-off on the reality show Survivor but witha Dairy-fest twist. Over the course of three days we were dividedinto herds. We slept in plastic calf-huts, we competed in immunitychallenges, and we culled the herd by voting people out of the barn.On the first day of the competition they loaded us up into a steellivestock trailer and they drove us into town. We had no idea wherewe were going or what they were going to make us do. We had nowindows. Only slits at the top of the trailer to let some light andair in.When they finally let us out of the trailer, we were led to the firstimmunity challenge. In front of us were two boxes – one for eachteam. And in the boxes were disassembled barbeques. Our task was to put the barbeque together, without any mistakes, before theother team could finish.Our herd had a quick conference before we started. It turned outthat none of us had put a barbeque together before. So we reachedfor the plans and started to work.The other team had already started but they left their plans in the box. Apparently someone had done this before. And before longthey had quite a lead on us. Now it’s pretty obvious for you to see where I’m going with thisstory. About half-way through, the other team realized they missedan important step. And so they had to take their barbeque apart andstart over. And since we began with the plans we were able tofinish first and win the challenge.We like to do things our own way, don’t we?
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