The Arrowshot Woman (standard:humor, 325 words)
Author: Subzero22	Added: Apr 15 2003	Views/Reads: 3380/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
It's about a woman who thinks she got shot by an arrow, Very funny once you read it all the way threw.

I heard this story on good authority from a good and honest friend,
whose friend was witness to the incident. I do truly believe it 
happened, as fantastical as it may seem. 

My friend's friend, Terron, was visiting the Elsweyr citystate of
Riverhold during a very hot summer and went to the marketplace there. 
If you have never been to Riverhold, the marketplace is very crowded, 
much more than in comparably sized city states. People from the 
countryside flock to the marketplace daily in their wagons and 
carriages. 

Terron was passing one such carriage, and noticed that the sole occupant
was a woman, seated with her eyes closed and her hands behind her head. 
An odd sight, to be sure, but he assumed she must be sleeping. Terron 
continued on. 

A little while later, after Terron had finished shopping in the
marketplace, he passed the same carriage. The same woman was sitting in 
it. Her eyes were open now, but her hands were still behind her head. 
"Are you all right, my lady?" he asked. 

"An arrow shot me in my head and I'm holding my brains in," came the
woman's reply. 

Terron did not know what to do. He ran into the marketplace and
literally bumped into a healer and his knight companion. They were good 
people and agreed to help. 

The carriage door had to be torn off its hinges, as the lady had locked
it and feared to move to unlock it. What they found when they finally 
could get into the carriage was this: the woman was holding barley 
dough on the back of her head with her hands. 

Apparently, in the heat of the day, a jar of barley dough had exploded
with the thwang of an arrowshot and struck the woman in the back of her 
head. When she reached back to feel what had hit her, she felt the 
dough and reasoned that she was feeling her brains.


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