Monday, October 17, 2005
Things I Find on the Side of the Road
Almost two weeks ago this sofa turned up on the side of State Highway 242, just southeast of Conroe I bit. I can’t explain why, but I figured it would make an interesting picture. I guess the jury is still out on that one.
With the weather finally cooling off here I guess the sofa makes a much better picture than the two deer and raccoon that marked the first 200 yards of driving this morning. I was even more disturbed when a deer made a slow walk across the road behind me. There is no way to explain how it survived, but deer and rush hour traffic around here are not the best of friends.
It was the damnedest thing to watch this buck just trot, ever so slowly, across two lanes of traffic. Of course I wasn’t making things any safer by watching out of my rear view mirror and ignoring the folks in front of me. What can I say, bad habits developed from years of pizza delivery die hard.
Once upon a time in the early 1990s I commuted between College Station and Conroe every day. It was easily an hour and half trip one way and that was traveling at a brisk 65 miles an hour. Every morning my coworkers received the road-kill report as I strolled in the door. I still have a fearful memory of the raccoon that had to be rottweiler-sized. It was lying on the shoulder of Highway 6 and it was freakin HUGE and very dead. I don’t want to go on too much about it since it might bring the nightmares back.
I guess there is a reason I prefer dead sofas on the side of the road these days.
