Posted by Ronan on May 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
Saturday: Driving along the M1 in hondy, a silly little red grouse decided to walk across the motorway. He must have seen a tasty treat on the other side and decided to go and claim it.
There wasn’t a lot I could do.. traveling at 120kmph doesn’t give much way for breaking hard, swerving to avoid things etc. so I remembered what my Father once said to me regarding animals and driving. “don’t break, keep the car straight and prepare for the thump.”
That’s what I did – “Thump” was followed by a plume of feathers in my rear view mirror.
My passenger was a little distraught.. but what can you do? These things happen all the time. Thankfully – no damage to hondy.
I’m sure it went straight grouse heaven.
i only did horn for three times in my lifetime in order to scare away the birds, but it didn’t work.
-brunt