Hong Kong Phooey

I have been talking about my OCD problems lately, so here is another OCD problem that affects me everyday.

A few months ago I saw a cat get hit by a car. It was very traumatic for me because I love animals and because it really pisses me off when people do not take care of their animals, but I digress.

So every day since that day, I have been obsessed with looking for animals on the side of the road, preferably LIVE animals that I can rescue.

At first, Andrew was cool about my new obsession to save all of the animals in the world.

NOW, after months of me screaming that I see an animal on the side of the road and it turning out to be trash or what have you, he is ANNOYED! I can see why he would be annoyed, because I am starting to get annoyed at my obsession!

Any who, the other day I was driving home from work on 529. For those of you that are not familiar with 529, 529 has six lanes (three lanes going each direction), so it is a very large road.

So I am driving down 529, and all of the sudden I see people swerving. My heart starts to skip a beat and I start to get upset. Then I started to see pink colored stuff all over the lanes.

I wanted to start crying because I just knew for sure it was an animal. Then I started to think that whatever animal it was, it must be a large animal because the pink stuff is all over the road. I made a quick decision in my mind that it was a horse. Yes, a horse.

As I get closer to the scene, I started to get more upset. I started yelling to myself, “WHY, WHY, WHY do people not take care of their pets?”

At that moment, I talk myself through the situation. I told myself that the animal is in a better place now, blah blah blah (Even though my Grandmother scared me for life when she told me as a small child that animals do not go to heaven because they do not have souls, but I digress).

Finally, as I approached the scene I said a little prayer to myself and closed my eyes. Obviously, since I was driving, I had to open my eyes back up and when I did guess what I saw?

It was not a horse, or a dog, or a large cat, or a person (heaven forbid).

The pink stuff all over the road was the guts of watermelons! YES, WATERMELONS! All over the road!

Someone had lost about a 100 watermelons and people were swerving so they didn’t run over these giant watermelons!

As I drove over the scene, I was relieved that it was not an animal and I thought to myself, what a pleasant smell that is coming through my car air vents. IT SMELLS LIKE WATERMELONS!