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I think I annihilated a bird yesterday. I was coming down the off-ramp of the tollway to Roosevelt and there were two gray birds (pigeons maybe?) walking across the road. Gray birds on gray pavement. I barely saw them. One flew up and narrowly missed my windshield. I don’t know what happened to the other one, but I did look in my rearview mirror and saw a cloud of feathers. A lot like when Randy Johnson hit a bird with a fastball.
It didn’t feel like I hit anything. Nothing like the time I was with my dad, who was driving, and we hit a cat. I felt the bump then and was sick to my stomach for a while. And I didn’t notice any signs of a bird on my car when I got home. So, really I can only speculate that I did hit it.
But honestly. What is a bird doing walking? I’m a strong advocate that if you have wings, you should be using them. Birds just don’t seem to listen to me. But I’ve known that ever since I owned a pet parakeet. That was the meanest, most stubborn bird ever. Refused to learn any tricks and instead preferred to bite the hand that fed it. Then one morning my mom woke me up, looked at the bird and told me it was dead – probably had frozen to death since it was cold the night before. Yea, I cried. So there.
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Sissy.
When did dad run over a cat?
I remember driving to CT w/ Aunt Deb for either a baby shower or wedding shower for Aunt Janet…and we totally ran over a squirrel. I was sick for a bit too – that was so gross!
Ugh. That is a sad feeling.
I can relate: A bird flew under the tire of my car many years ago. It was quick and looked as if it was actually aiming for the underside of the wheel.
I remember thinking, “By jove, that bird committed suicide using my vehicle.”
If I had wings, I’d never walk. Just to make you happy.
I also had a similar experience involving seagulls. They were flying rather low right in front of my car, and I figured they’d fly out of the way of my vehicle so I didn’t slow down. Most of them flew out of the way at the last minute, but there was one stupid one lagging behind. It looked as though he flew directly into the front of my car, but when I looked back I didn’t see him dead on the pavement so I didn’t worry about it.
You should ask Katie about the time she ran over a squirrell on the way to my 2nd wedding reception. She told Amy that it was something she always wanted to do but it didn’t feel that great afterwards.
HA HA HA HA HA HA….only Katie would say something like that! HA
When were you married the first time, Lins? Does Darrell know about that?
Thank you so much for such a good laugh with all these comments- at the end of a miserable day. I just keep giggling.
You CRIED when Pepper died? He was so MEAN!!! and nasty. And it was be/c of the temp. difference. He was always in the family room but the thing was so messy I’d had enough and put him upstairs..dead. Oh well.
So MOM killed Pepper, huh?? I know I cried. I found a scrapbook of mine from like 20 years ago and I had Pepper’s feather and a face w/ a tear saying we just buried Pepper in the back yard! HA
I remember burying Pepper in the backyard, but don’t remember much about him. Darrell doesn’t know about my first marriage, so if we could just keep that on the Dl that would be great. (Or to be truthful it was my October 1 wedding reception you dork)