http://steelwhitetable.org/2005/02/17/i-killed-a-squirrel/ What do you mean Star Trek isn't real?! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://steelwhitetable.org/2005/02/17/i-killed-a-squirrel/#comment-4745 Phillip Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:23:17 +0000 /?p=1408#comment-4745 I killed a squirrel in the same manner a few years ago. I was driving down a road out in the country, and the little bugger darted in front of the car before I could do anything --- I mean, I suppose in that split second of could have tried something, but what are you gonna do? In that split second, however, I did think, "Don't move." But what I should have thought is, "Put your head down," because when I looked in the rear view mirror, there he was middle of the road, not moving. "Shit." I stopped the car, turned around, and drove up slowly in the other lane. Yeah, he was dead. Freshly dead. No guts poking out, just a big cut on his head. "Aw, man." I know, big deal, it's just a squirrel. But I felt a genuine pang of saddness looking at that dead squirrel... Stupid squirrels. I killed a squirrel in the same manner a few years ago. I was driving down a road out in the country, and the little bugger darted in front of the car before I could do anything — I mean, I suppose in that split second of could have tried something, but what are you gonna do? In that split second, however, I did think, “Don’t move.” But what I should have thought is, “Put your head down,” because when I looked in the rear view mirror, there he was middle of the road, not moving. “Shit.” I stopped the car, turned around, and drove up slowly in the other lane. Yeah, he was dead. Freshly dead. No guts poking out, just a big cut on his head. “Aw, man.” I know, big deal, it’s just a squirrel. But I felt a genuine pang of saddness looking at that dead squirrel… Stupid squirrels.

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