BarracksSi
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On the way to work, on a 50-mph stretch of road, two lanes in each direction plus a center turn lane, I saw a squirrel a little more than a hundred yards ahead.
Hop-hop-hop, it went from right to left, and made it into the turning lane. "Stay there, you'll be fine," I tried to mind-meld to the squirrel. So it stayed put.
Then there was a car coming the opposite direction. "STAY THERE, DAMMIT," I said.
Nope.
It panicked, then started hopping left-to-right when I was less than 20 yards away. Hop-hop-h-BA-DUMP-BUMP.
Dangit.
It's not the first little animal I've ever hit, and it won't be the last (the most dramatic was a rabbit that I hit square with the front license plate at 70 mph... knocked its legs off of its little body...). I hope they won't be any bigger, though.
Hop-hop-hop, it went from right to left, and made it into the turning lane. "Stay there, you'll be fine," I tried to mind-meld to the squirrel. So it stayed put.
Then there was a car coming the opposite direction. "STAY THERE, DAMMIT," I said.
Nope.
It panicked, then started hopping left-to-right when I was less than 20 yards away. Hop-hop-h-BA-DUMP-BUMP.
Dangit.
It's not the first little animal I've ever hit, and it won't be the last (the most dramatic was a rabbit that I hit square with the front license plate at 70 mph... knocked its legs off of its little body...). I hope they won't be any bigger, though.
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