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I think I officially hate 2013.
Ouch. I almost collected one a few months ago in a work car in the rain. Managed to miss the roo but it took a while to get the car back in a straight line. Sure got my heart thumping.
I dropped some heavy iron bars on my finger a few years ago (completely crushed it) and my work pals were more worked up about it than I was, at least until the shock faded. At least then there was no doubt whether to go to the hospital or not, but in your case, at least get it checked out.
I remember I had a minor head injury at work a few years ago (different job than I have now) and they all but shoved me into an ambulance.
Turns out I chipped the bone in my finger and to this day if that chip moves a millimeter or two it will sever something important, but I forget what... but the school was so afraid they'd get sued they paid for it all.
The problem with roos is what happens if they survive the crash. You hear horror stories about them going through the windscreen and ending up in the car. Still, it could be worse. It could be wombats. They're so dense and have such a low center of gravity that if you hit one it's basically like going over a ramp and you're gonna flip your car.
Strangely enough, there's still a bounty on the coyote, but not the deer. Crazy, no?
Lost my internet for 8 days straight, just got it back today. No Aetolia, got bored as hell. Unlocked 3 sharks on my kindle game.
Phone stopped working Tuesday. I can get and send texts, but no one can hear me talking. 7 years at least with that ph. I think the poor thing's had it.
No internet or ability to phone AT THE SAME TIME makes me extremely nervous. And the house is surprisingly creepy when I'm by myself more than 24 hours. And DARK.
My roommate came home yesterday, plugged the router back in. Showoff. I checked it 3 times, I swear. But I have internet back!
In addition, while he was gone, I almost set the microwave on fire, stepped on a tack, locked myself out of the house once, popped my airbed, and discovered I'd thrown out the warranty paperwork when I was cleaning for my mom's visit. Knew I should have taped it to the box!! Then I left my purse at the library and almost ran over Meyvitch. :-(
I'm so cold lately I've been considering an electric blanket, but I'm afraid of it shorting and setting me on fire. I have bad karma lately.
Luckily it was a small roo and not a huge one. I managed to swerve enough that it mostly glanced, still though
They appear out of nowhere at dusk, and in some places there are so many that hitting them isn't bad luck - it's certain. My uncle, a truckie, says that some nights they jump, and others they don't. Maybe it is a moon phase thing, or just something else unknowable.
They jump along really, really fast, and approach the side of the road in the same direction you're driving. Then, just as you about to drive past the roo, it jumps in front as though trying to commit suicide. One of three things happen:
you hit it
you've slowed down so much that it is easy to miss
you've hammered the brakes and swerved sharply so as to cross behind it as it jumps across
Fun
But I'm still more scared of hitting a camel. I've got a bar on the front of my car for roos. I doubt it would do shit for me if I hit a camel. Wombats - I dunno. I've heard they can roll smaller trucks but I've never seen one on the road.
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman