Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm your host for this week and Jellica Lindsay Ali.

There's a lot of different ways humans can be smart. Maybe your book smart or

emotionally intelligent or maybe your a jack of all trades or have a green

thumb. Our stories this week are about street smarts. That's a certain knack

for thinking on your feet and getting creative when the going gets tough.

First up this week is Michelle Woods. Michelle told this at a Moth Story slam in

Sydney, Australia where the theme of the night was pressure. Here's Michelle live

at the Moth.

Hello, it's 2008 and I'm married to a shepherd and I'm living in a little

island off the west coast of Scotland. It's staggeringly beautiful. Only one

problem is the locals. I was under a lot of pressure to fit in and be accepted

and not seen as some Aussie Irish Aussie blowing. I had a very important job to do

that day. My husband was away on the mainland at the dentist and I had one

job to do that day. We'd managed to vlog frook our rampaging ram for the

princely sum of 300 quid to Donald McDonald on the neighboring island.

It's all true. All I had to do was just hand over frook. He'd be contained in his

little frank in the front garden and I had to hand over the ram, take the money,

what could possibly go wrong? Flashed with confidence, popped down the village

to buy a pint of milk to go with the scones I'd made to impress Donald with my

Croft wife skills and as I pulled into the top of the driveway just taking in

the scene my heart stopped. What did I see? But frook gambling, yes gambling,

like a spring lamb in the huge front marker instead of safely contained in the

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