In my previous post I cut/pasted a few sentences from my Facebook wall a year ago. That stared my remembering that weird week back then. Everyday something very singularly odd happened, like the extremely different assortment of people I encountered in every aisle at the Meijer's supermarket.
One day that week I was driving from home to campus. It's a route I've taken hundreds of times on a two lane, sorta country road. This time there was a car ahead of me and nothing seemed unusual. But then the car slowed down and stopped in the middle of the road. As I slowed and pulled up behind it, the driver turned on the car's flashers and then got out of the car. I really was curious to see what the driver, a woman, was going to do as I sat there.
She walks around to the front of her car and bends over. I couldn't see to the front of her car, but suddenly she stands upright and steps into view holding two, large, dead, smushed, road kill racoons, one in each hand by the tails. These were not little ones as they dangled on either side of her. She takes a big 360 degree spin so the raccoons are flying high above her and she lets go of them, flinging the now soaring raccoons into the roadside ditch.
Without looking at me, she walks back to her car, gets in, turns off the flashers and starts to drive ahead again, resuming her trip. I sit there a moment stunned and then start laughing. And I start driving again to campus.
I appreciate her removing the two nasty, dead raccoons from the road. I'm sure I would have had to drive around them if she hadn't taken care of the road kill. But it sure was funny. And makes for an interesting blog post, don't you think. (At least I do!)
Ann Arbor is a crazy place to live. All sorts of people from everywhere in the world come here. Always interesting, some days, like this day, especially so.
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