318. Do you garden? When did you start? Why did you decide to do it?
319. What is one of the most difficult projects you have ever had to complete?
320. What do you remember about learning to drive? Did your parents teach you? Did you attend a drivers-ed program?
321. When you were a kid were you afraid of monsters under your bed or in your closet? Where do you think that fear came from?
322. Were you or are you still afraid of the dark?
323. What is your favorite thing to do during the weekend?
324. What is one of the most bizarre and unexpected things you've ever seen?
324. What is one of the most bizarre and unexpected things you've ever seen?
First off, I want to say that I love traveling. There was a time , when I was attending school at TAMU that I was driving two hours one way every day. So, I saw a lot of really random stuff. This story, however, didn't happen on my commute. It happened in my hometown.
Before I moved in with my best friends I would drive home every night around 11:00-12:00. There is a loop of highway that runs through town (called, originally, "The Loop") and I had just gotten onto it. I saw, to my left, a huge, black shape in the median.
Please, I prayed, please let it be trash. The closer that I got, the more the black shape actually started to form into something recognizable: a bull. That's right! How much more Texan can it get than to have a bull out in the middle of the highway? So, I called police dispatch and told them where I was. Our conversation proceeded to go like this:
Me: There is a bull in the median.
Dispatcher: A bull?
Me: Yes. A bull. You know, a bovine. Livestock. Huge. It's literally bigger than my car. If someone hits it, they'll die. I think it got out of the stockyards (literally right up the road from the loop entrance).
The dispatcher said that she would send officers. I kind of want to know how that got handled, because there was NOTHING in the news about it (the town I live in is relatively small, so you expect something when it's out of the ordinary). The bull made me a little nervous about going home that way, so I decided to take the back way home. Maybe a month after my call to dispatch I was headed home. The cars coming toward me were flashing their lights, so I slowed down. When I got a little further down the road I saw the reason why: ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars. Getting closer, it became obvious that someone had hit a cow - definitely killed the cow and totaled the little truck. Needless to say, I was kind of twitchy for a while about livestock and my drive home.