I had the surrealist experience today. I’m driving to my kids’ schools to drop off stay-away orders regarding my boys’ mother. So I’m having a good day so to speak. I’ve got the windows down, I have KISS-FM cranked up and I’m singing along to Marvin Gay. I turn into the entrance to littlest Stuffy’s school when it happens. I’m driving a long a concrete barrier that separates the school from the adjoining property. There’s a cat on the ledge about halfway down along my course.
I see the cat; I see the cat look at me. As I’m approaching it at the last possible second it jumped right in front of my car. I slammed on my brakes, put the car in park. I look around and finally see the cat directly in front of my car admiring my headlights or something. I shoo it off and park.
I asked the secretaries about the suicidal cat, but they didn’t seem aware of it.
Well, I met a suicidal squirrel today. He was lucky that I didn’t have anyone behind me so that I could slow down–heck, I practically stopped–and not leave him fit only for a somewhat-odd stole.
What is with all these animals on the roadway in this part of the country? I’ve never come close to roadkilling a wild animal back home.
That behaviour is not uncommon in cats. My longest lasting cat Flossy, in her elderly years, would sit in the middle of the road, slap bang in the middle, licking her paws.
Yesterday I saw a dog nearly get run over on a high-speed road. Damn thing caused 4 cars (including us) and a truck to halt.
I was driving down a back road the other day, and there was a branch lying in the middle of the road. It was a fairly small branch, and not particularly hazardous.
Can’t say the same for the idiot deer that was standing in the middle of the road, eating leaves off the tree branch, though. I didn’t hit the stupid thing, but by God, it was tempting.
Believe it or not quite a few, it just doesn’t seem like it. Tuesday was the start of the actual welfare fraud trial, except it has been postponed until well I guess indefinately as she didnt show up for the hearing (she was out on bail, in two counties now) one in Washoe Nevada (ID Theft/bad checks) the other in Alameda County (welfare fruad). As it turns out she missed the hearing (Alameda) in order to be in Washoe but she apparently didn’t make that one either. I can’t tell you what happened since as I have no idea.
I can’t say that I’ve seen suicidal cats before. Really stupid pigeons, yup.
When I had my car I had to drive to college in the mornings down this country road. One day, in the distance, I could see a pigeon pecking in the road in front of me. No traffic behind so I slowed. Pigeon looks up, sees my car, and pigeon wobbles over to the side. I speed up again figuring the pigeon is safe now…
…well, that’s what I thought anyway. Stupid pigeon suddenly decides that a fast moving, heavy object like a car isn’t that dangerous and proceeds to turn around back into the middle of the road and peck away. The rest, you can say, is history…and matted feathers over my bumper.
