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Fri 14 Sep, 2007 07:47 pm
I was motoring down Main Street, about to enter greater Tomball, when a a dog happily trotted out into the street, seeking to follow its owner. It was under my wife's Corolla by the time I saw it coming. Immediately, I braked and brought the car to a stop on the shoulder. There was a commotion under there, and we saw it running for home, not even limping. Whew. Next day, Mrs edgarblythe drove by the house, and saw the dog, looking healthy. Its owner had hold of its collar, apparently afraid to trust it to keep out of the street. They have no fence around the house.
Sounds like a really, really short dog.
I had a german shepard run in front of my fathers car, which I was driving, when I was 17.
Luckily, I couldn't have been going more than 20 miles an hour.
The girl with the dog screamed, her father came running out of the house, thinking she was hit, and the police showed up.
I was on my way to teach catachism class.
The dog put a dent in my fathers car.
He was fine, and had already run off down the street looking for adventure.
Last year, 30 years later, I happened to be in NJ and rented a car to spend the day driving around the area I grew up in.
I drove past the house, and the girls father was out front raking the front lawn. I think he still had the same cigar butt in his mouth from 30 years ago.
I got out and introduced myself, and he remember the event as well as I did.
"Oh...your dat Zimbabwe girl".....uh...yes I am, but I haven't been Zimbabwe for years.....
"Dat damn dog"......yes, that dog sure was damned.
"Your older sister sure got fat".....I'll let her know you said that.
DrewDad wrote:Sounds like a really, really short dog.
Uh oh! Short dog; long winter.
Chai, are you a ridgeback?
I'lll admit it, my last name was not Zimbabwe, I used that to perserve my anonimity.
It was actually closer to Zambia.
Are there any Zambian dogs?
BBB
One of my son's dogs is a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Meagan.
DrewDad wrote:Sounds like a really, really short dog.
The dog is short and young.
I was in India five times. That' s probably enough said when it comes to run over dogs. I have been in the car for two run-overs. "Thud-thud"....nobody says a word, cab driver checks the rear view mirror to see if the foreigners are freaking out. They're not. OK, move on.
dagmaraka wrote:I was in India five times. That' s probably enough said when it comes to run over dogs. I have been in the car for two run-overs. "Thud-thud"....nobody says a word, cab driver checks the rear view mirror to see if the foreigners are freaking out. They're not. OK, move on.
Don't fret, dag, I've been in countries where the reaction is exactly the same when they run over people.
I can't stand the thought of driving over anything alive, or, dead, for that matter. I even drive around things like toads, that have been driven over so many times, they are totally flat and unrecogizeable.
Sunuvagun. A rabbit ran under my van and survived. Them animals got karma and mojo, no doubt.
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