Today was jury duty day! I showed up on time, even early, and I filled out my paperwork, and then I waited. And waited. And waited. Only to be told with 40 other people waiting, that the defendant made a plea. Yippee! I did my duty. Unlike most of my friends, my jury duty is in Cripple Creek. Unfortunately the path to Cripple Creek is riddled with construction. It took just as long to make it back to civilization as it did to sit and wait in the jury room. Little did I know that excitement awaited me before I hit the construction zone.
I was whizzing along at about 40 mph when a huge, and I don’t mean small, bumblebee flew right in the car through my passenger window and nearly landed in my lap. Am I afraid of bees? YES! So, I screamed and not too delicately pulled over, and jumped out of my car. I shut the door so it wouldn’t get torn off by other cars flying by and ran around to the passenger side. I opened the door but I couldn’t see the huge and I mean huge bumblebee. I could hear it. Buzzing in this ultra loud buzzing scream it was doing. I think it was scared and dazed.
I looked down and saw a plastic fork on the floorboard of the car. If you have a teenager, you probably have one on your floorboard too. I gently scooped him up with the fork and threw him into the scrub on the side of the road. I slammed the car door and ran around to the drivers side and rolled up the windows as quickly as the little motor would allow. I was still shaking as I drove away.
Well that was my eventful morning. I am glad I could share that with all of you. Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
1 Comment
June 17, 2009 at 8:10 pm
“I looked down and saw a plastic fork on the floorboard of the car. If you have a teenager, you probably have one on your floorboard too.”
you are gots the talent.