It was a beautiful afternoon as my daughter, Katie was behind the steering wheel and I was in the passenger seat. A bird decided to challenge us for the section of highway and flew into the windshield, making a loud ka-boom.
I told her that we needed to get to Wal Mart as quick as we could. She gave me a puzzled look and then had to ask why. I said that we needed to get a phone card for that bird because he was out of airtime.
I was going down the road late one night when I hit something that had to be flying. There was an amber light mounted on the back of our mirrors and I couldn't see the one on the passenger side mirror. I knew the mirror had to be gone from the sounds that I heard.
I pulled over and turned on my dome light to see what had happen. I saw two very mean eyes and the beak of a very angry, embarrassed owl. He was wedged between the mirror and the cab of my truck.
I took a stick and tried to push him out but that wasn't working. I moved my mirror, but that didn't help. My next option was to roll down the window and let him fly through the cab. Before I rolled down the window, I picked up my camera to get a record of this event.
As I took aim, the owl realized that he if I take his picture, it could end up on the Internet where all the other owls would laugh at him. The second before I could push down the button on the camera, he bolted out from his prison and went on his way.
One afternoon I saw a flock of wild turkeys in a field next to the highway. I admired these big beautiful birds until one decided to fly toward my windshield. I ducked down and getting ready for a direct hit but he just cleared the top of my cab.
All of a sudden my CB radio antenna started to bend backwards. It kept bending back when it sprang forward with a loud boing. I started watching my mirrors and noticed a pickup that was a fairly good distance behind me. The turkey was now coming back into the picture and the pickup was in the wrong spot. It was a direct hit on his windshield.
There are two things you should learn from reading this. First, always make sure you have enough airtime. Secondly, if you can't sore with the Eagles, fly with the owls, not the turkeys.
