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| Bear Tales from the Silver Foxes Den |
| Jodi Starr | 7/22/10 |
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When I was a little girl and it was summer, my mother sent me outside for the whole day only to call me back for food and bed time. My biggest fears were missing the calls to come inside for lunch (grape kool-aid and an american cheese sandwich on day old wonder bread), getting caught for punching Brian Adams in the nose for insulting my brother, and losing kickball games to the boys. I was never afraid of bears because the only one I knew of was named Smokey and he was on a poster at school warning me not to play with matches.
Now that I am not little, my biggest outside fears are getting lost walking in the PLPOA not knowing where the bathrooms are, getting hit by a car walking in the dark stupidly wearing black, and bears attacking and/or eating my people. The latter is a new found fear that just developed last week when I was at a dinner party and my hosts regaled me with stories of a bear breaking into their house to eat their banana bread. The following day a neighbor told my husband about a 400 pound bear in a tree very near to our home. The day after that, bears were the subject du jour in our dining room at the Silver Foxes Den — the Senior Center.
 I asked my people about bear encounters expecting to hear only one or two stories. Not so. Everyone had a bear tale. It is heartwarming to note that all of my people who currently have bear visitors made me promise not to give names or locations to protect the bears from the Division of Wildlife. Here are my five favorite comments.
1. “Don’t put out hummingbird feeders. Bears love those. I know.”
2. “I am more afraid of an angry woman than a bear.”
3. “Bears swam in my kiddie swimming pool and crunched the sides.”
4. “What do you call 10 naked people in the middle of a field? A bare picnic. I made that up.”
5. “In New Mexico bears lay out in the streets and roll around.”
Although my tale tellers were wide eyed in the telling, they admitted to no fear of their ursine company. Instead they informed me of rules in promoting good relations. “Never run”, “Never leave out trash”, “Don’t wear perfume when you camp”, “Don’t leave your doors or windows open” and “Don’t have chickens.”
The litany ended with “Bears are more afraid of people than people are afraid of them.” Seriously?
I was admonished to remember that the bears were here before people and that I had a responsibility to cohabit with them peacefully. I promised to do my best, not camp in Chanel No. 5, not have hummingbird feeders and especially not raise chickens. |
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