The Kaijo
Posted by Rey
Normally I’m tired when waking up 4:30am, but not that Sunday. I was excited about the passage I was preaching on. Normally, I don’t enjoy road-trips when I’m alone but I had recently downloaded a bunch of NPR’s CarTalk episodes which I was eager to spend some commute time listening to. Normally I’m bleary eyed, but not that Sunday: I could see every aspect of the road that the headlights allowed.
Including the small glowing white blur that apparated before my headlights and ran across my 68 mile per hour driving path.
I couldn’t stop. It was too late. At least it wasn’t a deer. I thought these things plus three more when I slammed headlong into the thing, heard a crunch, felt a small mass under my pedal, exhaust pipe and finally under the rear.
The first of my three remaining thoughts became Actual as I kept looking at the dashboard, hoping that my incident hadn’t done any major damage. I knew my bumper was done for but…then my engine temperature started bordering on the red.
The second of my three remaining thoughts became Actual as I tried to examine the damage in the dark of 5:35 A.M.. I couldn’t see the extent of the damage and I really wished I remembered to pack a flashlight when I had thought about it the night before.
The third of my three remaining thoughts became Actual as I sat in the shop paying the tow bill to the Vultures that had gotten up extra early that day because they knew there was going to be plenty of accidents with the oncoming snow. Whatever the extent of the damage, it was going to be expensive.
“Whadja’ hit?” asked one of the Vultures as I kept thinking about the money “A deer?”
“No, it was the size of a small dog.”
“Could’ve been a Kaijo. Or a fox.”
“Is a Kaijo like a mountain cat?”
“No. It’s a dawg.”
It’s only later I realized that ” Kaijo” was ” Coyote” in Vulture.
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December 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Oh. Oh, DUDE. Small white blur, possibly canine? That’s not Kaijo. You totally killed Krypto
December 5th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
So he died, again, because of my Kryptoniun radiator coolant. The junk is great on bringing down the engine temp and protecting someone from superhuman farmboys.