The proof is in the bruises

As a farmer, it's an important part of the job to maintain good fences. 

Tuesday morning when I was feeding the pigs it was painfully obvious to me that the fence is in excellent working condition! 

As I was feeding Yum Yum, she was getting very impatient, pushing on the bucket, trying to get me to pour it faster. 
The result however was she was tipping it away from the food dish toward me and the ground. My attention was fully on the bucket and her, trying to get her to stop so I could pour it straight into the dish.

  In the midst of this, I accidentally hit my knee on the electric fence. 
Now I've done this many times in my life and it hurts!

 It makes you jump and possibly curse. 

This, however, has never happened to me before. As I hit my knee on the fence, the button on the back pocket of my jeans hit the field fencing at the same moment. 

The electric current was attracted to the metal button, so instead of the jolt going down my knee and looking for the fastest path to the ground, "like my foot" it went for the metal button. 

Through my knee, up my thigh into my hip and out my booty, to the field fencing, then to the ground. 
It snapped so loud it was like a branch breaking.

Now as I said before I have hit an electric fence many times in my life, but because of the path this jolt took and the metal being included it HURT! 

I yelled like the pretty chick in the first scene of a bad horror movie.
 I limped my way back up to the house to inspect the damage. 

It left a path of small bruises up my leg and a welt on my tush.

 My hip has been aching ever since. 

In case you don't know how an electric fence works here's the skinny. 

The charger when attached to the smooth wire, sends a pulse through the wire.
 It is strong enough to send this through multiple wires for miles. 

When a bovine hits the fence they get a shock.

Between the bovines thick skin and fur, they get an unpleasant zing, that keeps them from running into the fence. 

For some reason, the path this took when I touched the fence was so painful, that it is not anything I will try to repeat. 

I am usually content hearing the strong click, click, click, sound the charger makes when it's sending out the pulse, However, it is nice to know the fence is working so well, despite my bruises and no, you don't get pictures!