Today is the first day of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival marking Abraham's non-sacrifice of Ismail (you say Ismail, I say Isaac). The major ritual of the festival is the sacrifice of a cow (or lamb, or sheep, or goat, or breakfast cereal, or orangutan, or fruit bat). So our neighbors here, being good Muslims, brought in a cow last night for the sacrifice.
Problem is that this cow is apparently none too happy about this state of affairs, and it intends to let the world know. Very loudly. And very constantly. While the cow didn't wake me up last night with its lamentations, it did wake up some of my housemates.
For all of our sakes, I hope that the sacrifice occurs on the first day of the festival, and not the second or third...
#thirdworldproblems
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