A Horse is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course...
Pearl, MS
Okay, so I'm driving through Texas yesterday. I had stayed the night in Dallas and had to head up to Wichita Falls to pick up my next load. My route took me through Fort Worth. For those of you who have never been to Fort Worth, it tends to get overshadowed by Dallas, a mere 30 miles to the east. But it's a fair sized city in it's own right, roughly twice the size of Cincinnati. Now, one of the things that has struck me since I started driving is the copious amounts of roadkill I pass in a given day. Deer, dogs, possums, raccoons, rabbits just creamed all over the highway. I've even seen smushed gator in Florida.
So, I'm coming into Ft. Worth and traffic comes to a screeching halt. I see lights flashing up ahead, so I'm thinking (Johnny Cash's I've Been Everywhere just came up on the playlist-funny) it's an accident or maybe construction. I get over to the middle lane to go around and as I come past the police car, I see what the impediment is. Someone, in the middle of downtown Ft Worth, TX had struck and killed a horse. At least I think it was a horse, but I suppose it could have been a mule or donkey. I thought at first it was a cow, then I saw the elongated head. And it must have been a semi that did it. The carcass was pretty torn up and there was no sign of automobile debris. If a car had hit a horse going fast enough to that much damage to the horse, there would have been at least a smidge of wreckage.
"Smidge" is a funny word. If you move the "s" to the end and change it to a "t", you get "midget". I mean, how many other words can say that? Probably not many since individual words, as a general rule, are incapable of boasting.
Any Questions? Any Comments? Be Quiet As You Go.
Okay, so I'm driving through Texas yesterday. I had stayed the night in Dallas and had to head up to Wichita Falls to pick up my next load. My route took me through Fort Worth. For those of you who have never been to Fort Worth, it tends to get overshadowed by Dallas, a mere 30 miles to the east. But it's a fair sized city in it's own right, roughly twice the size of Cincinnati. Now, one of the things that has struck me since I started driving is the copious amounts of roadkill I pass in a given day. Deer, dogs, possums, raccoons, rabbits just creamed all over the highway. I've even seen smushed gator in Florida.
So, I'm coming into Ft. Worth and traffic comes to a screeching halt. I see lights flashing up ahead, so I'm thinking (Johnny Cash's I've Been Everywhere just came up on the playlist-funny) it's an accident or maybe construction. I get over to the middle lane to go around and as I come past the police car, I see what the impediment is. Someone, in the middle of downtown Ft Worth, TX had struck and killed a horse. At least I think it was a horse, but I suppose it could have been a mule or donkey. I thought at first it was a cow, then I saw the elongated head. And it must have been a semi that did it. The carcass was pretty torn up and there was no sign of automobile debris. If a car had hit a horse going fast enough to that much damage to the horse, there would have been at least a smidge of wreckage.
"Smidge" is a funny word. If you move the "s" to the end and change it to a "t", you get "midget". I mean, how many other words can say that? Probably not many since individual words, as a general rule, are incapable of boasting.
Any Questions? Any Comments? Be Quiet As You Go.
posted by twistedyoda | 3/01/2006 08:25:00 PM
2 Comments:
I lived in Dallas (ok, in Denton) for three menths and drove all around the Dallas metro area regularly. Despite my intentions, I never saw Fort Worth.
One of the funniest things I saw on Interstate 35E was the George HW Bush Turnpike extending into a curve in the sky as it passes over 35E... and suddenly disappearing into thin air over our heads. Like something out of "Speed". Had it been named anything else, I don't think I would have noticed it every time I passed it.
That's crazy. Those high overpasses in Texas are freaky. It's like going up a roller coaster ramp.
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