Encounters with Animals

Have you ever wondered how many animals you have killed in your driving career? When I first got my permit I thought it would be interesting to keep track, but that ended when I hit a deer a few days later. Lately though, I have been having the strangest encounters with animals while driving.

Last week I was driving home from work when a mourning dove hit the windshield of the car in front of mine and came rushing towards me. The mangled bird didn't hit my car but went flying by my open window. Except not all of it went by, bits and pieces of feather and flesh were sucked through my window to blow around me. That was pretty gross. Afterwards I started thinking how terrible it would have been if the whole bird had been sucked in, and what if it had been alive still; imagine trying to drive, while a dying bird is bleeding and flopping around you.

At the end of the day I am usually pretty tired. So on my drive home I tend to think odd things. Like the other day I saw a rabbit run across the street and thought, "hmm a monkey." It's times like that, that I start to wonder if the people I take care of are rubbing off on me. Perhaps I'm loosing my mind.