I'm a craigslist maniac; I actually spend more time on it than I do on Hatrack, which is saying something. It's taken years, but my fingers no longer type "www.xanga.com" by default in the address bar; now it's "seattle.craigslist.org." What can I say, I'm a fascinated voyeur.
The Best Of section makes my day. The above Best Of is one of the best I've ever read.
Read it. Laugh. Cry.
Happy holidays!
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I totally sympathize with that poster. I've only hit one mammal in all the time I've been driving, a possum, and the sound was the most hideous part of it. Like a water balloon bursting. Horrible.
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
I hit a seagull once. Well actually the guy in front of me hit it, and I proceeded to catch it on the rebound. I guess I landed the killing blow. I felt kinda bad for a while, but then I moved on with my life.
Once I was driving merrily along, and a dog came running out of nowhere, and smacked right into my driver's door. I was kind of confused. Did this count as me hitting the dog, or the dog hitting me? Well, he was well enough to run in zig zags into the alley. I followed, but in less than a minute he had straggled into a backyard. I peeked over the fence where the owners were doing backyardish activities, and recriminated them with a "your dog is running around on the street." They looked at me with an apparent lack of concern and said "ok, thanks for letting us know." I just sighed, and when I got home I gave my dog a big hug.
Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
The other day I had to run over a goose. It was squished into the road, all but its neck and head, which it was waving around.. So I had to put it out of its misery. Which, I suppose, was nice of me, much as I hate the buggers.
It crunched too.
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
I had a friend who swerved so as to avoid hitting a racoon.
He hit the median in the center of the road and totaled his brand new SUV. Luckily he wasn't hurt.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
When I was in college, a friend of mine hit a squirrel.
Thing is, the squirrel was in a crosswalk.
A crosswalk.
And he hit him.
I think that's set back squirrel evolution a few generations.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It must have just been the area, because I ran over at least a couple of rabbits and a cat while I was in my teens, but nothing at all since then.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Well we all have dark times in our teen years.
My Mother once hit TWO squirrels at once, with both front tires, then both back tires. Thing is, she actually tried to steer around them as they crossed the road, but she turned WITH their movement, and then ran them both over, with her 4 kids in the car. We didn't let her forget it for years.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Well, at least it wasn't a squirrel, and he wasn't driving a motor cycle. Cause then his story might have looked something more like this: