Kicking Ass, Taking Names!

Duck, Duck, ... Goose!

"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  DAY 2050: November 15, 2019.

What was the strangest thing you’ve ever seen in public?

Great question. I've watched drag queen shows that were titillating, I've seen people play 'Frogger'1 in the middle of the street with traffic, and I've witnessed a couple of different cultures. But I'm not a particularly adventurous type of person, so nothing too shocking have I seen. Perhaps. Mostly. But there was this one time...

My mom was driving on the 10 Freeway West just entering La Puente, California, when we saw a very bright white umm THING in the road;  it was dodging the somewhat slower traffic at the beginning of 'rush hour' so I was able to watch it up ahead for a bit. Kind of seemed like a s l o w motion moment. We both said, "Duck!" And were riveted. It dodged a semi-truck, moved over a lane towards us. Dodged an Accord, advanced another lane. We were wanting to cover our eyes because there's NO WAY it was going to get out of this alive. No way.

Yeah, soon enough it came to our lane and we were about oh—the very first ones to hit it going about 60 MPH. There was nothing to do for it, you can't slow down much in bumper-to-bumper traffic of the Los Angeles variety. But oh man, I can still hear the CRUNCH of its cute orange duck-bill. Only today I realize it wasn't even a duck, it was totally a goose! It was larger. Poor dude. But he was gone in an instant...

I figure he must've broke out of a poultry transport truck, but who knows? Anything's possible in LA

Footnotes
1  Atari, anyone