Roadkill Fishy

SO the dryer has been dead for about three weeks, despite all attempts to save it. Dad thinks the igniter is busted, which means it won't heat, which means that at the moment it's a very useless sort of appliance.

So Mom and I have been taking in the wet laundry (cause the washer's fine) and drying it at a laundromat in town. We also got groceries today when we did that because ten miles is a lot of distance to have to run back in to get stuff for supper.

So we did all we wanted to do and were headed home on the highway, when my mother suddenly shouts "Fish!" and slams on the brakes, sending the gallon of milk we'd just bought under the seat.

She claimed that she'd seen a fish lying on the side of the highway.

Me being me, I miss everything and I didn't see it. Mom believed (and was probably right) that I would continue to deny that there was anything there till the end of time if she didn't drive back across and back over to the place where she'd seen the fish and make me see it, too.

So she drove back around, as I tried to unwedge the gallon of milk from under the backside of the driver's seat.

And I saw the fish.

Dead.

On the side of the highway.

Mom assumed it was a perch or a small walleye.

Okay. So I believed her after I SAW the stupid thing lying there with its mouth open and everything.

How and why it was there was anyone's guess (Mom assumed the eagle that lives nearby may have picked it up from the river and then dropped it by accident.)

We considered going back again, picking it up, and cooking the thing for supper so that Dad could eat genuine piscine roadkill.

But we didn't. We had burgers instead. They were, at least, processed properly and the meat was somewhat cleaner than a fish with probable eagle talon marks and enough mercury to fill a thermometer in it (when they used to put mercury in them.)

It tops the list for weird roadkill I've seen. And I've seen plenty in my time.

I am fairly certain I won't be seeing a FISH on the side of the road again, especially not like that.

That is about it for me. Nothing else is happening.

Ta,
Bec