# Piper Cub tries to buy a cow for $10,000+ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146 "2011-11-26T15:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/21 "2011-11-27T19:03:33Z")
If the Piper Cub had actually bought that cow, I bet Northern Piper would have a pretty big beef. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/22 "2011-11-27T23:13:10Z")
Piper Cub didn’t even really want the cow. He just wanted the toy that came with it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/23 "2011-12-04T04:51:31Z")
two updates. First, I got it wrong - he wasn’t just waving his hands because others were. Mrs Piper had warned him not to wave his hands, because he’d end up buying a cow. Turns out that was the wrong thing to say - he _wants_ to buy a cow. He understood the process perfectly. He was explaining yesterday that we would keep the cow in mummy and daddy’s bedroom, and in answer to a question from Mrs Piper, mentioned that he would feed it. Mrs. Piper asked him who would clean up after it. He pointed at me and said “Daddy.” in the most matter of fact voice possible. Second update: I found him on the bed yesterday evening, with all his coins out of his football piggy bank. I asked him what he was doing. He said, “Is this enough coins to buy my cow?” When I told him it was not nearly enough coins, he looked at me and asked, “Do you have any coins I can have?” This does not bode well, on several fronts. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/24 "2011-12-04T05:02:47Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > My first thought was, how can a small plane buy a cow? Did it hit one upon landing? My thought was along those same lines. Udder madness! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/25 "2011-12-04T05:04:35Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > This does not bode well, on several fronts. Keep all information about cattle rustling away from him. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/26 "2011-12-04T05:17:59Z")
Piper Cub should really be looking at culled dairy cows, not show Angus. Much, much cheaper. I expect they’d eat less, too, plus, free fresh milk! Well, assuming that you breed it every year - otherwise it’d dry up, but then Piper Cub can sell the calves to help pay for feed. This is starting to sound like my childhood. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/27 "2011-12-04T06:05:45Z")
Count me among those who though perhaps a small plane had crashed and the owner had to pay some farmer for the cow he had killed. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/28 "2011-12-04T06:08:15Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Piper Cub should really be looking at culled dairy cows, not show Angus. Much, much cheaper. Or, he could have started with the basics and bought a few semen lots … they went for about $200 per. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/29 "2011-12-04T13:01:55Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Or, he could have started with the basics and bought a few semen lots … they went for about $200 per. It’s weird when you think that a $200 vial of instant gratification can teach a kid delayed gratification… ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/30 "2011-12-04T14:13:38Z")
Actually in my growing up experience of going to art auctions with my antique dealer mother and dad on weekends from the age of about 5 onwards to about 14 anything kids do unless previously arranged with the auction house as minors are not capable of generating nor completing contracts. [in general buyers at auctions register and are also issued a purchase number, I would assume since the last couple of horses I bought at auction in the US required me to register with the auctioneer’s company this may be the same in the wilds of Canada as well.] Actually my parents did tend to arrange for me to have my own number at auction, I had quite a good eye for art pottery, my specialty at the time was [Rookwood](http://www.rookwood.com/). I can probably still read the symbols on them with a quick swot up of them. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/31 "2011-12-04T17:27:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > “Do you have any coins I can have?” > > This does not bode well, on several fronts. Why not? All you have to do is give him some of your coins, and you’ll be the best daddy ever! Plus, you’ll have your very own cow in the bedroom. What could be cooler than that? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/32 "2011-12-05T15:47:27Z")
I understand not letting your son bid, but what about your daughter? Would you leather bid? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/33 "2011-12-05T16:14:23Z")
Some relatives and friends run a sale barn I visit a couple of times a year. They think it’s good fun to wave at and acknowledge people that aren’t regulars there when they come in with a “Hello” and when they wave back to point and say “$1800 to 'him/her… do I hear 19… 1900?” The looks on the visitors’ faces, priceless. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146/34 "2011-12-05T23:26:43Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I understand not letting your son bid, but what about your daughter? Would you leather bid? I think Chessic won’t be per-suede-ed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-tries-to-buy-a-cow-for-10-000/604146.md?page=1)