R.I.P. My Job
Quote of the moment:
I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it I’m about to
lose control and I think I like it...
Hurrah! Last day at work. Hopefully. I put it down as my last day when I signed up with the agency and I told them I wanted to leave this Friday, but in a moment of weakness I said I'd do a handover day on Monday if necessary. It shouldn't be, I haven't used most of the stuff I learned and the stuff I have would only take about half an hour, maximum.
The jubilation was rather overshadowed though, because on the way home I hit a cat. I was coming down the road from the Green Dragon, only about 500m away, and it ran out, paused in the lights, then ran on. I did the correct thing and braked without trying to swerve out around it, because that would have put it right between the wheels. Unfortunately the side of the car just clipped its bum, which was less resilient than Zulu's.
*** If you're squeamish, don't read on ***
When I turned around and drove back to find it, I discovered it lying in the middle of the road with its stomach split open and its intestines sliding out. It was a full Saving Private Ryan job. I got a Tesco bag from the car and tied it around the midriff to hold the guts in, then took it to the door of the bungalow it was running towards, since it had no collar or tag.
The little old lady (L.O.L.) who slightly opened a window next to the door said it was one of the ones she fed occasionally (as LOL's do) but it wasn't really hers or anyone's that she knew of. I thought it would be a bit harsh to make the LOL go digging, so I agreed to take it home and bury it.
P.S. A shocking appearance in the awesome cast list of Saving PrivateBob Ryan: Vin Diesel! How rare!
I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it I’m about to
lose control and I think I like it...
Hurrah! Last day at work. Hopefully. I put it down as my last day when I signed up with the agency and I told them I wanted to leave this Friday, but in a moment of weakness I said I'd do a handover day on Monday if necessary. It shouldn't be, I haven't used most of the stuff I learned and the stuff I have would only take about half an hour, maximum.
The jubilation was rather overshadowed though, because on the way home I hit a cat. I was coming down the road from the Green Dragon, only about 500m away, and it ran out, paused in the lights, then ran on. I did the correct thing and braked without trying to swerve out around it, because that would have put it right between the wheels. Unfortunately the side of the car just clipped its bum, which was less resilient than Zulu's.
*** If you're squeamish, don't read on ***
When I turned around and drove back to find it, I discovered it lying in the middle of the road with its stomach split open and its intestines sliding out. It was a full Saving Private Ryan job. I got a Tesco bag from the car and tied it around the midriff to hold the guts in, then took it to the door of the bungalow it was running towards, since it had no collar or tag.
The little old lady (L.O.L.) who slightly opened a window next to the door said it was one of the ones she fed occasionally (as LOL's do) but it wasn't really hers or anyone's that she knew of. I thought it would be a bit harsh to make the LOL go digging, so I agreed to take it home and bury it.
P.S. A shocking appearance in the awesome cast list of Saving Private
5 comments:
:O:O Villy! How COULD you?!?!?! [sobs] Poor lil kitty cat:(
Sigh. Y'know that's gonna be me in a few years. I mean the LOL, not the dead cat. [sigh]
Well, it was simple. I drove along the road and the cat ran out and got in the way.
Tough luck, TBH.
See now if you had been going faster you would have already passed the place where the cat was crossing. Speeding's right, kids.
Jim
Also, was the cat still alive when you went back and found it>?
I don't reckon so, although it could have been in shock and not moving cos of that. However, its intestines were sliding out across the road, so it was a gonner. Some blood came out of the mouth as I was carrying it too, so it might have had lung damage.
Obviously my anatomy isn't exactly great, so you can come and excavate it for an examination if you want...
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