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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rooster Shows Up At Auto Shop One Day And Decides He Works There Now [View all]
We can't believe the attention Earl is getting.BY CAITLIN JILL ANDERS
It was just a normal day last summer at R and R Garage in North Carolina when a rooster randomly wandered over to the garage, and didnt seem to have any plans to leave. The employees assumed hed been abandoned and began feeding him leftovers from the shop fridge, but when they took a long weekend, they sort of figured he would move on to another spot.
When they all returned, though, he was still there, so they named him Earl and hes been the shop rooster ever since.
Earl sleeps in a nearby tree at night, unless the weather is bad, and then everyone makes sure hes safely inside for the night. Every morning, Earl eagerly greets his fellow employees as they arrive at work for the day, and hes fallen into a daily routine around the shop that everyone has come to know and love.
He comes running when the first guy comes in to open up for the day, Joe Gallo, co-owner of R and R Garage, told The Dodo. He gets his cup of scratch, then wanders the shop looking for any bugs that may be around. He gets up under all the toolboxes and workbenches looking for spiders and anything else he can find.
After his morning breakfast hunt, Earl likes to follow all of the employees around the garage and hang out with them. He definitely seems to think hes just one of the guys working for the garage, and, at this point, he kind of is.
He will come up in the shop and usually lay down and sleep under the car youre working on or in a corner, Gallo said. He doesn't care about loud noises or people walking by. He will even sleep in front of the office door and we've tripped over him a few times.
Earl seems to have no idea that, most of the time, hes kind of in the way
and everyone at the shop has just come to accept that part of their daily job is working around their rooster mascot.
Earl has been working at the shop for so long now that hes become a bit of a local celebrity, and everyone at the shop has wholeheartedly embraced their little feathered coworker. Theyre even working on changing their logo and getting shirts made to include him, to show him that hes officially part of the team.
We can't believe the attention Earl is getting ... its the town gossip now, Gallo said. We do have customers that bring other friends or family to see Earl when they come pick up their vehicles.
No one is quite sure where Earl came from or why he chose the R and R Garage to be his home, but everyone there is so glad that he did, and now definitely considers him part of their extended family.
https://www.thedodo.com/on-the-farm/rooster-works-at-autoshop
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It is INDEED quite special when one of Mother Nature's creatures take a particular shine to you and
Haggis for Breakfast
May 2019
#10
I noticed! But I was too busy coming up with a stupid joke about a "crowbar"
ProudLib72
May 2019
#13