You Know What’s Funny?

Posted by Am I A Turtle?

December 13, 2008

It was dark, around 7:00. I was driving down toward the highway. We just had a harsh ice storm that left many of the surrounding cities without power. Many of the trees had coatings of ice, and many lost huge branches into the roads and everyone’s backyards. There were not very many cars around. However there was a car a little ways in the distance ahead of me. A little red car. I was driving along listening to music when suddenly I saw something move really fast from the sky and the car in front of me swerved off the road and immediately stopped. By this point I caught right up to the car, and dodged a large branch in the road and pulled off along side the car. I got out and went up to the small red car to make sure the driver was ok.

I pulled over and saw a large branch in the road, so I pulled over away from it and ran over to the small red car. Out popped a young Asian girl. She was about my age and height. Her hair was colored brightly green and she had about 30 visible piercings in her face (give or take 15)

As she stepped out of the car she scowled at me, much like she was preparing for a grand fight. She proceeds to start yelling at me…

“You asshole, you stupid BLEEPITY BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP, what is wrong with you? Can’t you see where you’re going????” She yelled

Knowing that she thought I hit her rear end, I raised my eyebrow at her and fixed my gaze on the obviously large dent on the TOP of her trunk and then slowly shifted my gaze toward the large branch in the road. Suddenly she stopped screaming at me long enough to notice…. and she remained quiet for a moment. At this point I could tell she was incredibly embarrassed. So I looked behind us and up toward the trees.

“Yeah you stupid tree, what is your problem???”

She giggled… then proceed to apologize. I cut her off mid apology.

“It’s fine, don’t worry about it… but hey, lets move that giant branch out of the road” I said

So we grabbed the large branch that traffic was now swerving around… and moved it out of the road. Next we proceeded to examine the damage on her car. A big ass dent on the top of her trunk… and a nice crack to the back window. Everything else looked OK, for as much as we could see by the glow of my cellphone panning the car.

I asked if she needed anything else, a witness, or anything. She told me it would be fine, she would just drive home and call her insurance company. She paused a moment, looked down at her shoes, then looked up at me.

“You know whats funny?” she asked

“That you swore at a tree?” I meekly replied

She giggled. “No, my parents, sort of met this way” she told me with a smile

I got quite embarrassed and kinda panicky in a way. I told her I had to go…. my girlfriend was waiting at home for me… Her mood shifted to a more serious one. She told me she understood. She left me with her name and told me to take care of myself. She thanked me for the help and we drove away.

It was an odd encounter, on an entirelly otherwise normal Saturday. Unless of course you count the lady at Wal-Mart who bought 20 cans of span, 10 bags of bagels, 3 tubs of margarine, 5 ecnomy size jars of salsa, and 2 huge containers of Rolaids.

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